Journal articles, etc.
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1965
Constancy and the geometric illusions. Nature, 206, 744-745, 1965. (With M.J.Morgan).
1967
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).
1968
Two studies in the neuropsychology of vision. Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge. 1968.
1969
Varieties of colour anomia. Brain, 92, 847-860, 1969. (With J. M. and S. M. Oxbury).
1970
What the frog's eye tells the monkey's brain. Brain, Behaviour, Evolution, 3, 324-337, 1970.
1971
Colour and brightness preferences in monkeys. Nature, 229, 615-617, 1971.
Contrast illusions in perspective. Nature, 232, 91- 93, 1971.
1972
Seeing and nothingness. New Scientist, 53, 682-684, 1972.
Les illusions visuelles. La Recherche, 3, 631-638, 1972.
1973
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).
Status and the left cheek. New Scientist, 59, 437- 439. 1973. (With I. C. McManus).
The illusion of beauty. Perception, 2, 429-439, 1973.
1974
Species and individuals in the perceptual world of monkeys. Perception, 3, 105-114, 1974.
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.
1975
Une esthetique naturelle. In Colloque d'Esthetique Applique a la Creation du Paysage Urbain, pp. 73-90, Copedith, Paris, 1975.
1976
How monkeys acquire a new way of seeing. Perception, 5, 51-56, 1976. (With G. R. Keeble).
Hypnosis explained. New Scientist, 71, 485-486, 1976.
1977
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.
1978
Nature's psychologists. New Scientist, 900-904, 29 June 1978.
The origins of intelligence. Human Nature, 42-47, December 1978.
1979
The biological basis of collecting. Human Nature, 44-47, February 1979.
1980
1981
Four Minutes to Midnight. The BBC Bronowski Memorial Lecture, BBC Publications, 1981
1982
Consciousness: A just-so story. New Scientist, 95, 473-477, 1982.
1983
The adaptiveness of mentalism. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 6, 366, 1983.
The lessons of the night. New Society, 65, 275-277, 1983.
1987
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.
1988
Lies, damned lies and anecdotal evidence. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 11, 257-258, 1988.
1989
The number of the beast. New Scientist, 123, 62-63, 1989.
1990
Movement. In Images and Understanding, ed. H. Barlow, C. Blakemore, M. Weston-Smith, pp. 79-80, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
1993
City of mists and fruitful mellowness. Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington), July 1993.
Is there anybody here? Psi Researcher, 10, 3-5, Summer 1993.
1994
The private world of consciousness. New Scientist, pp. 23-25, 8 January 1994.
Reflections on consciousness. The Psychologist, 7, 259, 1994.
1995
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.
Histories. In In the Company of Animals, Social Research, 62, 477-480, 1995.
1996
The bounds of reason. Prospect, 34-37, January 1996.
1997
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.
1998
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.
1999
Why grandmothers may need large brains. Psycoloquy, 10 (024), 1999.
2000
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.
2001
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
2002
2003
Foreword to Folk Physics for Apes, Daniel J. Povinelli, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
2004
2005
Prirodni psychologovia [Natural psychologists]. Kritika & Kontext, 31, 23-29, 2005
2006
Science looks at fairness. Social Research, 73, 345-7, 2006
Killer instinct. (Review of Niall Ferguson, “World of War”). Prospect. September 2006.
2007
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
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.
2008
Questioning consciousness. Seed Magazine, February 2008.
2009
The colour currency of nature. In Colour for Architecture Today. Ed. Tom Porter and Byron Mikellides. London: Taylor and Francis, pp. 912, 2009
Helen “a blind monkey who saw everything”. Oxford Companion to Consciousness , ed. Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken, pp. 343-345, 2009.
Parler au nom de nos Soi(s): Une évaluation du trouble de personalité multiple. (French translation of “Speaking for ourselves”). Terrain, 52, 18-37, 2009
Il potere delle parole. (Italian translation of “What shall we tell the children?”). Prometeo, June 2009, pp38-51. 2009
2010
The nature of beauty. Prospect, September, p. 62-65, 2010
Person as moral scientist. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 33.4, p. 340, 2010
2011
Introduction to Descartes Meditations and Other Writings. Folio Society, London, 2011
It takes a thief to catch a thief. Behav. Brain Sc 34.1. p. 28, 2011
2012
In a dark time. Clio’s Psyche, 19, pp 163-165, 2012
2013
Placebos at large. New Scientist, 6 August 2013
A beautiful explanation for why the human mind may seem to have an elegant explanation even if it doesn't. In “This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works.” Ed John Brockman. Harper Perennial, pp. 119-21. 2013
2015
Consciousness Spirited Away. Interalia Magazine, April 2015
Consciousness as Art. Scientific American Mind, May/June 2015, pp. 65-69
2016
A Riddle Written on the Brain. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23, pp. 278-87, 2016
2017
Humans Are the Only Animals Who Crave Oblivion Through Suicide. Aeon. 28 July 2017.
The Invention of Consciousness. Topoi, 39(1), 13-21.
2018
2019
2020
Consciousness: knowing the unknowable. Social Research, 87 (1), pp. 157-70, 2020.