Nicholas Humphrey

Nicholas Keynes Humphrey ( born March 27, 1943) is a British psychologist. He was until 2008 a professor at the London School of Economics and at the New School in New York City.

Life

Humphrey visited the 1956-61 Westminster School. His B. A. (1964) and his Ph.D. (1968 ) in psychology, he received from the University of Cambridge. He has held professorships at the University Cambrdige, Oxford and the London School of Economics. He studied under mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda. His works of evolutionary psychology has received numerous awards ( the Martin Luther King Memorial price, Pufendorfmedallie and the British Psychological Society 's Book Award).

Work

Humphrey has written 1967-1998 over 100 scientific publications.

Family

Humphrey is the son of Immunologists John H. Humphrey and his wife Janet Humphrey (nee Hill ), is the daughter of Nobel Laureate Archibald Hill. John Maynard Keynes is his great uncle. Later he was married to Caroline Waddington, daughter of CH Waddington. After the separation, he lived with Susannah York. Later he married Ayla Kohn with whom he has two children.

  • 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. by RJ 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 Italieinische 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)
Bachelor's degree Conrad Hal Waddington Integrated Authority File
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