October 2008. Writing and Consciousness. Wellcome, London

October 2008 Necessity of Consciousness. International Science Festival, Genoa

March 2009. Belief and Reasons. Cambridge

June 2009. Science and Spirituality. Cortona

September 2009. Evolutionary aesthetics.  Santiago.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Consciousness Regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind, Oxford University Press, 1983  [Spanish translation 1989].

Four minutes to midnight The BBC Bronowski Memorial Lecture, BBC Publications, 1981; Menard Press 1982. [German, Greek and Russian translations, 1982].

In a Dark Time, (ed. with R. J. Lifton), Faber & Faber 1984, Harvard University Press 1984.

The Inner Eye, Faber & Faber 1986, Faber Inc 1987, Vintage 1993, Oxford University Press 2002. [Italian and Spanish translations 1992, Japanese translation 1993].

A History of the Mind, Chatto & Windus 1992, Simon & Schuster 1992, Vintage 1993, Copernicus 1999. [Portuguese translation 1995; German translation 1996;  Italian translation 1998].

Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles and the Search for Supernatural Consolation, Chatto & Windus 1995, Vintage 1996, Basic Books 1996, Copernicus 1999.

How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem, Imprint Academic, 2000.

The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Evolution and Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2002. [Japanese translation 2004]

Seeing Red: a Study in Consciousness. Harvard University Press, 2006 [Japanese translation 2006, Italian translation 2007, German translation 2008]

Papers  since 1998 (100+ papers 1967-98)

1998

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Left-footedness in peacocks: an emperor’s tale.’ Laterality, 3, (1998) p. 289.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘What shall we tell the children?’ Oxford Amnesty Lecture.Social Research, 65, (1998), pp. 777-805; also in The Values of  Science, ed. Wes Williams,, Oxford: Westview Press (1998), pp 58-79.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Cave art, autism and the evolution of the human mind.’ Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 8, (1998) pp. 165-191; reprinted in  Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, (1999) pp. 116-143.

1999

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Why grandmothers may need large brains.’ Psycoloquy, 10(024) (1999).

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The privatization of sensation.’ In Toward a Science of Consciousness III, ed. S. R. Hameroff, A.W. Kaszniak, and D. J. Chalmers,  Cambridge Ma.: MIT Press (1999)  pp. 247-258; also in The Evolution of Cognition, ed. L. Huber and C. Heyes,, Cambridge: MIT Press (2000) pp. 241-252.

2000

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The power of prayer.’ Skeptical Inquirer, 24, (2000), p. 61.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘How to solve the mind-body problem.’ Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, (2000),  pp.5-20; ‘In reply.’  Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, (2000), pp. 98-112.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Now you see it, now you don’t.’ Neuro-psychoanalysis, 2, (2000) pp. 14-17.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘One-self: a meditation on the unity of consciousness.’ Social Research, 67, (2000), pp.  32-39. 

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Dreaming  as play.’ Behavioral & Brain Sciences , 23, (2000), p. 953.

2001

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Altered states.’ Social Research, 68, (2001), pp 585-7.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The Deformed Transformed’. CPNSS Monograph, DP 55/01, (2001).

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Doing it my way: sensation, perception - and feeling red.’  Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 24, (2001), p. 987.

2002

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Great expectations: the evolutionary psychology of faith-healing and the placebo response.’ In Psychology at the Turn of the Millennium, Vol. 2: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives. Edited by Claes von Hofsten & Lars Bäckman. Psychology Press, (2002), pp.225-46.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Shamanism and cognitive evolution [Commentary on Michael Winkelman].’  Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 12, (2002), pp. 91-3.

2003

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Dreaming  as play’. In  Sleep and dreaming: Scientific advances and reconsiderations,. Edited by E F Pace-Schott, M.Solms, M.Blagrove, and S.Harnad, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2003) p. 164

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Foreword’ to Folk Physics for Apes by Daniel J. Povinelli, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. v-vi.

2004

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Thinking about feeling.’ Guest essay in Oxford Companion to the Mind. Edited by  R.L.Gregory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2004), pp. 213-4 .

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The placebo effect’. In  Oxford Companion to the Mind. Edited by R.L.Gregory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2004), pp. 735-6.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘A family affair.’ In Curious Minds: How a child becomes a scientist. Edited by. John Brockman, New York: Pantheon Books, (2004), pp.3-12.

2005

Nicholas  Humphrey. ‘Do babies know what they look like? Doppelgängers and the phenomenology of infancy.’ In Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science. Vol. 2. Edited by  Susan Hurley and Nick Chater,  Cambridge Ma.: MIT Press, (2005), pp. 178-80

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Prirodni psychologovia’ [Natural psychologists], Kritika & Kontext, 31 (2005), pp. 23-29.

Nicholas Humphrey, John R Skoyles and Roger Keynes. ‘Human Hand-Walkers: Five Siblings Who Never Stood Up.’ CPNSS Discussion Paper, DP 77/05 (2005)

2006      

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Consciousness: the Achilles Heel of Darwinism? Thank God, Not Quite.’ In Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement, ed. John Brockman,New York: Vintage (2006)  pp. 50-64,

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Science looks at fairness.’ Social Research, 73 (2006) pp. 345-7.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Killer instinct’ (Review of Niall Furguson, “World of War”).Prospect. September (2006).

2007

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Could vision after recovery from early blindness be “blindsight”?’ The Psychologist, 20, 3, (2007) p.139

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The society of selves.’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 362, (2007) pp. 745-754; also in Social intelligence: from brain to culture, ed. Nathan Emery, Nicola Clayton, Chris Smith, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2008), pp. 415-430

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘La natura e il valore del colore.’ Multiverso, n.4, (2007) pp. 3-8

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Dreaming to learn.’ In Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with great scientists of our time., ed. Lynn Margulis & Eduardo Punset, Chelsea Green Publishing, (2007).pp. 140-148

2008

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Getting the measure of consciousness.’ In What is Life? The Next 100 Years of Yukawa's Dream. Ed. M. Murase and I. Tsuda,  Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, 173, (2008) pp. 264-269.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Questioning consciousness.’  Seed Magazine, February (2008.)

Nicholas Humphrey, Stefan Mundlos, and Seval Turkmen. ‘Genes and quadrupedal locomotion in humans.’ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(21):E26, May 2008.

S. Türkmen, K. Hoffmann, Osman Demirhan, Defne Aruoba, N. Humphrey,  S.Mundlos. ‘Cerebellar hypoplasia, with quadrupedal locomotion, caused by mutations in the very low density lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR) gene.’ European Journal of Human Genetics 16, (2008), pp. 1070-74.

2009

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘The colour currency of nature.’ In Colour for Architecture Today. Ed. Tom Porter and Byron Mikellides. London: Taylor and Francis, (2009)  pp. 912.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘Helen: a blind monkey who sees everything?’ Oxford Companion to Consciousness , ed. Patrick Wilken, in press.

Nicholas Humphrey. ‘What shall we tell the children?’  Italian translation. Prometeo, in press

Nicholas Humphrey and Daniel C. Dennett. ‘Parler au nom de nos Soi(s): Une évaluation du trouble de personalité multiple.’  Terrain, 52, pp. 18-37 (2009)

Nicholas Humphrey et al. ‘Mutations of CA8 Cause a Novel Syndrome Characterized by Ataxia and Mild Mental Retardation with Predisposition to Quadrupedal Gait.’ PLOS Genetics May (2009).

Nicholas Humphrey ‘Il potere delle parole.’ (Italian translation of “What shall we tell the children?”. Prometeo, June 2009,  pp38-51. 2009

Book in Preparation

SoulDust., Princeton University Press