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Early Consciousness: The 5 Minute Month, Day 28

May 28, 2013

Note: To see what the 5 Minute Month is all about, click here to read the first post in the …

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Daniel Dennett, “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools For Thinking.”

April 30, 2013

Jennifer Schuessler of the New York Times has written an interesting profile of Daniel Dennett that also provides a quick …

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Of Hubris, Academia, and the Audacity of Failure

January 20, 2013

Just a few minutes into my dissertation defense, a little over a year ago now, my outside reader pointed to …

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Brilliance at Gunpoint: Jonah Lehrer, Creativity, and the Pressures of Intellectual Performance

August 9, 2012

By now, anyone who follows internet journalism has heard of science journalist and general intellectual wunderkind Jonah Lehrer’s resignation from …

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Literary Darwinism and Literary Studies

May 21, 2012

Since my exchange with Bill Benzon response over this post, I’ve been doing a little further pondering over the question …

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Brain Science Podcast

April 3, 2012

I wanted to take just a moment to give a brief shout-out to the always fantastic and thought-provoking Dr. Ginger …

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Necessary Evil: The Hockey Enforcer as Viking Berserker

January 19, 2012

Back in October, I wrote this brief post about anthropologist Robin Dunbar’s comments on the role of the Viking “berserker” …

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Reinventing the Wheel (or, why cognitive science, part 3)

October 19, 2011

Another question that I am often asked about the use of cognitive science in the context of literary scholarship and …

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Peaceful Vikings: The Social Brain and Conflict Resolution

September 19, 2011

I’m gearing up to start teaching a new class next week, a comparative world literature class based on the theme …

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Brains…brains…brains! (or, why cognitive science, part 2)

August 12, 2011

Today seems like the perfect time to return to the blog and plug in a second installment of the “why …

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