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].
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, by E. P. Evans, 1906 (rediscovered, edited, and with an introduction by myself), Faber & Faber 1986, Faber Inc 1987. [Italian translation 1990].
A History of the Mind, Chatto & Windus 1992, Simon & Schuster 1992, Vintage 1993, Copernicus 1999. [Portuguese translation 1995; German translation 1996; Italian translation 1998].
Soul Searching: Human Nature and Supernatural Belief, 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]
Journal articles, etc.
Constancy and the geometric illusions. Nature, 206, 744-745, 1965. (With M.J.Morgan).
The receptive fields of single units in the superior colliculus of the rat. Journal of Physiology, 189, 86p, 1967.
Receptive fields of single units in the visual system: a new method for mapping their characteristics and extents. Vision Research, 7, 497-498, 1967. (With S.J.Salter).
Vision in monkeys after removal of the striate cortex. Nature, 215, 595-597, 1967. (With L.Weiskrantz).
Two studies in the neuropsychology of vision. Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge. 1968.
Responses to visual stimuli of single units in the superior colliculus of rats and monkeys. Experimental Neurology, 20, 312-340, 1968.
Size constancy in monkeys with inferotemporal lesions. Quarterly Journal Experimental Psychology, 21, 225-238, 1969. (With L.Weiskrantz).
Varieties of colour anomia. Brain, 92, 847-860, 1969. (With J. M. and S. M. Oxbury).
What the frog's eye tells the monkey's brain. Brain, Behaviour, Evolution, 3, 324-337, 1970.
Colour and brightness preferences in monkeys. Nature, 229, 615-617, 1971.
Contrast illusions in perspective. Nature, 232, 91- 93, 1971.
Ventral temporal lobe lesions and oddity performance in monkeys. Brain Research, 30, 253-263, 1971. (With S. D. Iversen).
Seeing and nothingness. New Scientist, 53, 682-684, 1972.
Les illusions visuelles. La Recherche, 3, 631-638, 1972.
Interest and pleasure: two determinants of a monkey's visual preferences. Perception, 1, 395-416, 1972.
Predispositions to learn. In Constraints on Learning, ed. R. A. Hinde and J. Stevenson-Hinde, pp. 301- 304, Academic Press, London, 1973.
Turning the left cheek. Nature, 243, 271-272, 1973. (With I. C. McManus).
Asymmetry in gorilla skulls: evidence of lateralised brain function? Nature, 244, 53-54, 1973. (With C. P. Groves).
Status and the left cheek. New Scientist, 59, 437- 439. (With I. C. McManus).
The illusion of beauty. Perception, 2, 429-439, 1973.
Species and individuals in the perceptual world of monkeys. Perception, 3, 105-114, 1974.
Lasting effects of early blindness: a case study. Quarterly Journal Experimental Psychology, 26, 114-124, 1974. (With C. Ackroyd and E. K. Warrington).
Variations on a theme. New Scientist, 63, 233-234, 1974.
The apparent heaviness of colours. Nature, 250, 164-165, 1974. (With E. Pinkerton).
The reactions of monkeys to 'fearsome' pictures. Nature, 251, 500-502, 1974. (With G. R. Keeble).
Vision in a monkey without striate cortex: a case study. Perception, 3, 241-255, 1974.
Interactive effects of unpleasant light and unpleasant sound. Nature, 253, 346-347, 1975. (With G. R. Keeble).
Une esthetique naturelle. In Colloque d'Esthetique Applique a la Creation du Paysage Urbain, pp. 73-90, Copedith, Paris, 1975.
How monkeys acquire a new way of seeing. Perception, 5, 51-56, 1976. (With G. R. Keeble).
The colour currency of nature. In Colour for Architecture, ed. T.Porter and B.Mikellides, pp. 95-98, Studio-Vista, London, 1976.
The social function of intellect. In Growing Points in Ethology, ed. P. P. G. Bateson and R. A. Hinde, pp. 303- 317, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1976.
Hypnosis explained. New Scientist, 71, 485-486, 1976.
Do monkeys' subjective clocks run faster in red light than in blue? Perception, 6, 7-14, 1977. (With G. R. Keeble).
Finding mental capacities in the brain. Theoria to Theory, 11, 27-47, 1977. (With C. Blakemore and A. Appiah).
Unfoldings of mental life. Science, 196, 755-756, 1977.
Nature's psychologists. New Scientist, 900-904, 29 June 1978.
Effects of red light and loud noise on the rate at which monkeys sample their sensory environment. Perception, 7, 343-348, 1978. (With G. R. Keeble).
The origins of intelligence. Human Nature, 42-47, December 1978.
The biological basis of collecting. Human Nature, 44-47, February 1979.
Natural aesthetics. In Architecture for People, ed. B.Mikellides, pp. 59-73, Studio-Vista, London, 1980.
Nature's psychologists. In Consciousness and the Physical World, ed. B.Josephson and V.Ramachandran, pp. 57-75, Pergamon, Oxford, 1980; also in The Exercise of Intelligence, ed. E. Sunderland and M.T.Smith, pp. 101-120, Garland STPM Press, New York, 1980.
Having feelings and showing feelings. In Self- awareness in Domesticated Animals, ed. D.G.M. Wood-Gush, M.Dawkins, R.Ewbank, pp. 37-38, 1981.
Consciousness: A just-so story. New Scientist, 95, 473-477, 1982.
The adaptiveness of mentalism. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 6, 366, 1983.
The lessons of the night. New Society, 65, 275-277, 1983.
Arms and the man. New Blackfriar's Journal, 68, 35-40, 1987.
The inner eye of consciousness. In Mindwaves, ed. Colin Blakemore and Susan Greenfield, pp. 377-383, Blackwell, Oxford, 1987.
The uses of consciousness. (James Arthur Memorial Lecture). American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1987; revised version in Speculations, ed. John Brockman, pp. 65-84, Prentice Hall, New York, 1990.
Foreword. The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, by E.P.Evans, pp xiii - xxxi. Faber &Faber, London, 1987.
Lies, damned lies and anecdotal evidence. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 11, 257-258, 1988.
The number of the beast. New Scientist, 123, 62-63, 1989.
Speaking for our selves: an assessment of multiple personality disorder. Raritan, 9:1, 68-98, 1989. (With Daniel C. Dennett); revised version as Occasional Paper of Center on Violence and Human Survival, New York, 1990.
Movement. In Images and Understanding, ed. H. Barlow, C. Blakemore, M. Weston-Smith, pp. 79-80, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
City of mists and fruitful mellowness. Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington), July 1993.
Is there anybody here? Darwin College Magazine, 8, 41-48, 1993; reprinted in Psi Researcher, Summer, 3-5, 1993.
The private world of consciousness. New Scientist, pp. 23-25, 8 January 1994.
Reflections on consciousness. The Psychologist, 7, 259, 1994.
On taking another look. In How Things Are, ed. John Brockman and Katinka Matson, pp. 177-182, William Morrow, 1995.
The thick moment. In The Third Culture, ed. John Brockman, pp. 198-208, Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Blocking out the distinction between sensation and perception: superblindsight and the case of Helen. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18, 257-8, 1995.
Histories. In In the Company of Animals, Social Research, 62, 477-480, 1995; reprinted in Humans and Other Animals, ed. Arien Mack, pp. 63-65, Ohio State University Press, 1999.
The bounds of reason. Prospect, 34-37, January 1996.
Kinds of Minds. Journal of Philosophy, 94, 97-103, 1997.
Carl Sagan: a tribute. Skeptical Inquirer, 21, no. 2, 14, 1997.
Varieties of altruism - and the common ground between them. Social Research, 64, 199-209, 1997.
Science. In Technology and the Rest of Culture, Social Research, 64, 1115-1118, 1997.
In sight of the mind. [Commentary on Mark Solms: "What is Consciousness?"] Journal of the American Psychoanalytical Association, 45, 726-731, 1997.
Left-footedness in peacocks: an emperor’s tale. Laterality, 3, 289, 1998.
What shall we tell the children? Oxford Amnesty Lecture. Social Research, 65, 777-805, 1998; also in The Values of Science, ed. Wes Williams, pp 58-79, Oxford: Westview Press, 1998 (abbreviated version Times Higher Education Supplement, p.20, 28 February 1997).
Cave art, autism and the evolution of the human mind. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 8, 165-191, 1998; reprinted in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, 116-143, 1999.
Why grandmothers may need large brains. Psycoloquy, 10(024), 1999.
The privatization of sensation. In The Evolution of Cognition, ed. L. Huber and C. Heyes, pp. 241-252, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000; also in Toward a Science of Consciousness III, ed. S. R. Hameroff, A.W. Kaszniak, and D. J. Chalmers, pp. 247-258, Cambridge Ma.: MIT Press, 1999.
The power of prayer. Skeptical Inquirer, 24, 61, 2000.
How to solve the mind-body problem. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, 5-20, 2000.
In reply. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7 (4), 98-112, 2000.
Now you see it, now you don’t. Neuro-psychoanalysis , 2, 14-17, 2000
One-self: a meditation on the unity of consciousness. Social Research, 67, no. 4, 32-39, 2000.
Dreaming as play. Behavioral & Brain Sciences , 23, 953, 2000; also in Sleep and dreaming: Scientific advances and reconsiderations, co-edited by E F Pace-Schott, M. Solms, M. Blagrove, and S. Harnad, p. 164, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Altered states. Social Research, 68, 585-7, 2001
The Deformed Transformed. CPNSS Monograph, DP 55/01, 2001
Doing it my way: sensation, perception – and feeling red.. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 24, 987, 2001
Great expectations: the evolutionary psychology of faith-healing and the placebo effect. In Psychology at the Turn of the Millennium, Vol. 2: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives, ed. Claes von Hofsten & Lars Bäckman, pp. 225-46, Hove: Psychology Press, 2002.
Shamanism and cognitive evolution [Commentary on Michael Winkelman]. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 12, 91-3, 2002.
Foreword to Folk Physics for Apes, Daniel J. Povinelli, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Thinking about feeling. Guest essay in Oxford Companion to the Mind, ed. R.L.Gregory , p. 213-4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
The placebo effect. In Oxford Companion to the Mind, ed. R.L.Gregory, p. 735-6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
A family affair. In Curious Minds: How a child becomes a scientist, ed. John Brockman, p.3-12, New York: Pantheon Books, 2004
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., ed. Susan Hurley and Nick Chater, pp. 178-80, Cambridge Ma.: MIT Press, 2005
Human Hand-Walkers: Five Siblings Who Never Stood Up. CPNSS Discussion Paper, DP 77/05, 2005 (with John R Skoyles and Roger Keynes)
Prirodni psychologovia [Natural psychologists]. Kritika & Kontext, 31, 23-29, 2005
Consciousness: the Achilles Heel of Darwinism? Thank God, Not Quite. In Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement, ed. John Brockman, pp. 50-64, New York: Vintage, 2006
Science looks at fairness. Social Research, 73, 345-7, 2006
Killer instinct. (Review of Niall Furguson, "World of War"). Prospect. September 2006.
Could vision after recovery from early blindness be "blindsight"? The Psychologist, 20, 3, 139, 2007
The society of selves. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 362, 745-754, 2007,; also in Social intelligence: from brain to culture, ed. Nathan Emery, Nicola Clayton, Chris Smith, pp. 415-430, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
La natura e il valore del colore. Multiverso, n.4, 3-8, 2007
Dreaming to learn. In Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with great scientists of our time., ed. Lynn Margulis & Eduardo Punset, pp. 140-148, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007.
Questioning consciousness. Seed Magazine, February 2008.
Helen: a blind monkey who sees everything? Oxford Companion to Consciousness , ed. Patrick Wilken, in press.
What shall we tell the children? Italian translation. Prometeo
Speaking for ourselves. French translation. Terrain
Getting the measure of consciousness. Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, Proceedings of the 22nd Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial International Symposium: What is Life? The Next 100 Years of Yukawa's Dream. Ed. M. Murase (in press)