lunes, 17 de enero de 2011

Edge 2011: What scientific concept would improve everybody´s cognitive toolkit?


HOWARD GARDNER
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, Truth, Beauty, And Goodness Reframed: Educating For The Virtues In The 21St Century

BRUCE HOOD
Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre in the Experimental Psychology Department at the University of Bristol; Author, Supersense

W. DANIEL HILLIS
Physicist, Computer Scientist; Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc.; Author, The Pattern on the Stone

NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
Psychologist, London School of Economics; Author, Soul Dust

GEORGE LAKOFF
Cognitive Scientist and Linguist; Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, UC Berkeley; Author, The Political Mind

STEVEN PINKER
Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology; Harvard University; Author, The Stuff of Thought

ROGER SCHANK
Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Engines for Education Inc.; Author, Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own

SEAN CARROLL
Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN
Philosopher; Novelist; Author, Betraying Spinoza; 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

NICHOLAS CARR
Author, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

RICHARD NISBETT
Social Psychologist, Co-Director, Culture and Cognition Program, University of Michigan; Author, Intelligence and How to Get It

ROB KURZBAN
Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology (PLEEP); Author, Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite

DAVID G. MYERS
Social psychologist, Hope College; Author, A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists

DOUGLAS T. KENRICK
Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University; Author, Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life; Editor, Evolution and Social Psychology

MICHAEL SHERMER
Publisher of Skeptic Magazine; Adjunct Professor, Claremont Graduate University; Author, The Believing Brain

IRENE PEPPERBERG
Psychologist, Research Associate, Harvard University; Author, Alex and Me

MARCEL KINSBOURNE
Neurologist & Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School; Coauthor, Children's Learning and Attention Problems

JONATHAN HAIDT
Psychologist, University of Virginia; Author, The Happiness Hypothesis

NEIL GERSHENFELD
Director, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms; Author, FAB
Truth is a Model

CLAY SHIRKY
Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher; Adjunct Professor, NYU Graduate School of Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP); Author, Cognitive Surplus

ALISON GOPNIK
Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Philosophical Baby
The Rational Unconscious

WILLIAM CALVIN
Neuroscientist, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington in Seattle. Author, Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

LAWRENCE KRAUSS
Physicist, Foundation Professor & Director, Origins Project, Arizona State University; Author, A Universe from Nothing; Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science

THOMAS METZINGER
Philosopher, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies; Author, The Ego Tunnel

RICHARD FOREMAN
Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater

DONALD HOFFMAN
Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence

HELEN FISHER
Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University; Author, Why We Love

Temperament Dimensions

 JOEL GOLD, M.D.
Psychiatrist; Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine

DON TAPSCOTT
Founder, Moxie Insight;  Adjunct Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto;  Author, Grown Up Digital; Macrowikinomics
Designing Your Mind
 
GERD GIGERENZER
Psychologist; Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin; Author, Gut Feelings

GERALD SMALLBERG, MD
Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off Broadway Productions, Charter Members; The Gold Ring

MARK HENDERSON
Science Editor, The Times; Author, 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know
Science's Methods Aren't Just For Science

ADAM ALTER
Psychologist; Assistant Professor, Stern School of Business, NYU

NICK BOSTROM
Professor; Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

ROBERT SAPOLSKY
Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Monkeyluv

ERIC TOPOL
Professor of Translational Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute; Cardiologist, Scripps Clinic

GEOFFREY MILLER
Evolutionary Psychologist, University of New Mexico; Author, The Mating Mind; Spent

DAN SPERBER
Professor in philosophy and cognitive science at the Central European University, Budapest

DAVE WINER
Visiting Scholar in Journalism, NYU; Pioneer Software Developer (Blogging, Podcasting, RSS, Outliners, Web Content Management)

JONAH LEHRER
Contributing Editor, Wired; author, How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist

MARCO IACOBONI
Neuroscientist, UCLA Brain Mapping Center; Author, Mirroring People

TANIA LOMBROZO
Cognitive Psychologist, UC, Berkeley

ERNST PÖPPEL
Neuroscientist, Chairman, Human Science Center and Department of Medical Psychology, Munich University; Author, Mindworks

MARK PAGEL
Evolutionary Biologist, University of Reading; External Professor, The Santa Fe Institute; Author, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution

PAUL BLOOM
Psychologist, Yale University; Author, How Pleasure Works

EDUARDO SALCEDO-ALBARÁN
Philosopher; Founder, Manager, Metodo

DAVID M. BUSS
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin; Coauthor: Why Women Have Sex; author, The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating and Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind

SUE BLACKMORE
Psychologist; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction

P.Z. MYERS
Biologist, University of Minnesota; blogger, Pharyngula

SAM HARRIS
Neuroscientist; Chairman, Project Reason; Author, The Moral Landscape

CARL ZIMMER
Journalist, author of The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution

JOSHUA GREENE
Cognitive Neuroscientist and Philosopher, Harvard University  

JOAN CHIAO
Assistant Professor, Brain, Behavior, and Cognition; Social Psychology; Northwestern University

FIERY CUSHMAN
Post-doctoral fellow, Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University

XENI JARDIN
Tech Culture Journalist; Partner, Contributor, Co-editor, Boing Boing; Executive Producer, host, Boing Boing Video

DIANE F. HALPERN
Psychologis; Director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children at Claremont McKenna College

Stuart Firestein
Neuroscientist, Columbia Universtiy
The Name Game

ANDREW REVKIN
Journalist; Environmentalist; Writer, New York Times "Dot Earth" blog; Author, The North Pole was Here

GARY MARCUS
Cognitive Scientist, NYU; Author, Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind

MAHZARIN R. BANAJI
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

RICHARD THALER
The Father of Behavioral Economics; Director, Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; Coauthor, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

V.S. RAMACHANDRAN
Neuroscientist; Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego; Author, The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature
Chunks With "Handles"
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