There
are 4 main offshoots from the homepage of the controversial Edinburgh psychologist who has
fought for liberalism and realism:
1. BRAND's BATTLES against political correctness -- as seen by others,
incl. the media
2. ISSUES of scientific importance to differential psychology (this page,
see below)
3. HISTORY OF C.B. versus
P.C., by Chris Brand
-- see
especially Wiley & Edinburgh University versus Brand.
4. QUIZ
TIME – find what twenty Gorgeous Girls have in common!
LATEST NEWS
FROM CHRIS BRAND
2.
The ISSUES -- and the other academics.
[For topics without links, please contact Chris Brand at
crispian@chris-brand.co.uk.]
NEW! – FOR 'HALL OF FAME FOR PSYCHOLOGY',
GO TO THE BOTTOM HALF OF THIS WEBPAGE
You really just need to know about IQ without
all the horrid controversy?
'IQ-testing for the faint-hearted' will show you what you
need!
You just want an update on what happened to IQ
arguments after The Bell Curve?
A fair 1998 article in Commentary
covers much ground including 'rising IQ' and 'the Mozart effect'.
What about Brand's own claim that intelligence derives
from mental (even perceptual) speed of intake?
For
a non-technical summary of work linking IQ and Inspection Time (IT), see http://www.prometheussociety.org/issue83/gof83.html.
For Brand's own summary of IQ and IT, see Chapter 2 of THE g FACTOR.
For the FREE on-line 2001 edition of THE g FACTOR,
go to http://www.douance.org/qi/brandtgf.htm.
For competing views about the importance of mental speed, see The Bases of
Intelligence.
For the
work of the Erlangen School, in Germany, relating IQ to processsing speed, go
to http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~terryh/01Books/01Human-Paradigm/27Intelligence-IQ/020IQ-Brain-Energy.html.
Nature,
Nurture, or Nature via Nurture? (For more quotes, contact
crispian@chris-brand.co.uk.) -- Brand's introduction to genetic and environmental
factors that shape lifestyles. How important are parental deprivation, sibling
rivalry, life-stresses and 'social class'? Isn't learning what matters? Doesn't
modern behaviourism help understand human differences? Top US behaviourist Arthur W. Staats didn't write a 400-page book, Behavior
and Personality (1996, New York, Springer), for nothing?
"Get
Real About Race!" -- an article by Brand in the UK hip hop
music magazine downlow, including the proposal of high-commitment
but self-chosen marital contracts. See also Ten Arguments for Race Realism -- Brand's
1997 address to Cambridge University students. (For a translation into
Portuguese, go to http://contracorrente.cplp.net/.)
For the academic background, see Richard Lynn's 'Race
Differences in Intelligence: a Global Perspective.'
For other arguments
for legalizing polygyny, as in classical Black and Muslim culture, see http://www.submission.org/women-comp.html.
In view of "the disastrous demographic situation in Russia", in which
the number of women exceeds the number of men by nine million and
infertility is a growing problem, a Liberal Democratic party leader has proposed
the legalisation of polygamy (with the proviso that no man or woman should have more than five spouses at the same time) (Daily Telegraph 26 x '00,
Alexander Chancellor).
Harvard's Black
sociologist, Orlando Patterson, still wants to trace what he calls Blacks'
"desperate" problems to an origin in their enslavement. But his book Rituals of Blood
is unconvincing and anyhow suggests no remedy other than forcing White women to
take Black husbands. (The
idea of forced residential integration for Blacks and Whites was first put
forward by the 'liberal'-left social psychologist Marie Jahoda -- 1960, 'Race
relations and mental health', in Race and Science: Scientific Analysis from
UNESCO. As a neo-Freudian, Jahoda had brought herself to belief that all
racial prejudice was just a 'projection' – e.g. of the White id on to
Black people, followed by criticism of Blacks for being 'over-sexed.' In reply,
A. James Gregor pointed out that Whites had many reality-based reasons for
keeping their wives and children out of contact with Blacks – 1961, Mankind
Quarterly 1.)
New Zealand political
scientist James Flynn thinks Blacks may one day enjoy an IQ
boost from the discovery of some environmental 'Factor X' that has been holding
them back – but in 2001, after twenty years of work, he still couldn't find
what it was.
Lefties at the University of Harvard
don't care tuppence about getting Flynn's IQ boost – they just want potsamoney
right now in 'affirmative action' (i.e. affirmative neo-racism) and
'reparations' for Blacks' good luck in being transported out of Africa to the
USA.
Orientals
often accuse each other of massive genocidal political violence (as under
Emperor Hirohito, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse Tung); and the religious
hostilities of the Indian sub-continent (flashpoint Kashmir) often look likely
to furnish the beginning of World War III.
Get Real About Politics! -- The fearsome rise of
'politically correct authoritarianism' is nothing new. Though economic
socialism failed, the Left has been working for a generation (especially in the
realms of the media, publishing and education) to forge a new package of
egalitarian and communitarian values. Brand explores the psychology of politics and
suggests the Right in the West will languish until it develops its own 'dynamic
compromise' between libertarianism and moralism. (This will probably involve
allowing different types of marriage -- see "Get
Real About Race!" -- and personally chosen [though
state-assisted] forms of insurance for families' futures. To select some kind
of insurance would be obligatory; but there would be tax incentives for the
undertaking of familial responsibilities for others.)
Get
Real About Prejudice! 'The West is so rife with prejudice that countless defence mechanisms have
to be used by victims.' So say social psychologists. But is their anxiety
overdone? Are they themselves self-serving, self-righteous and prejudiced?
Devoid of homo-, gyno-, raco- and fato-phobic prejudice though today's social
psychologists may be, they have arguably forgotten the words of that keen
progressive of his day, William Hazlitt (1817): "There is no prejudice so
strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."
Liberating the Future! This 15,000-word essay,
written to prepare for the third millennium, is concerned with the main
problems in the West's recent past -- its 1930-1945 plunge into barbarism and
its subsequent statism. It considers the central failing of the Hitler years to
have been untruthfulness (evident in evasiveness about Nazi plans for Germany,
conspicuous in lies to Britain and France and culminating in Hitler's bizarre
belief that the people of Germany had themselves had betrayed him) and uses the
understanding to point the West towards a realistically liberal future. It
suggests that, whereas the first millennium was one of religions and the
second one of national governments, the third millennium could belong to
individuals.
Get Real
About Genius! -- Brand's high-voltage compilation of how it's done.
SEX LIVES OF MOZART, GOYA, BYRON, DICKENS, VERDI,
HEMINGWAY, PICASSO, NUREYEV AND MARTIN LUTHER KING A SPECIALITY! For more
quotes, contact crispian@chris-brand.co.uk.
Get
Real About Love! – Brand's substantial 2001 review of The Art of Loving.
In 1956, the neo-Freudian 'Trotskyite', Erich Fromm, published his bestseller
which argued that love could be understood and practised without much help from
biology. Brand takes Fromm to task for spurning the insights of Freud and Darwin
– not least Freud's insistence on the importance of race. Increasingly today,
the biological bases of love are being understood – but this would never have
appealed to left-wing Fromm who led millions to believe that love was an act of
will.
Paedophilia
Corner -- rattling some more cages! (In 1996, Brand urged
clemency for a 73-year-old Nobel Prize Winner charged with 'paedophilia' in
Maryland. The courts did indeed show clemency to the Nobelist; but Edinburgh
University used Brand's e-mailed message -- given to the Scottish
tabloids by another E. U. member -- as the pretext for sacking him.)
For philosopher Glen Newey's 1997 bombshell in the Independent
[London] on Edinburgh University's sacking of Chris Brand for his one page of
e-mail on 'paedophilia', see: http://www.paranoia.com/~theslurp/news/news0007.html.
For Brand's own response (June, 1998) to commonly heard
sentiments about paedophilia, see his contribution intended for BBC's 'Talking Point' discussion.
For the latest academic research on paedophilia, see: Wiley & Edinburgh University versus Brand.
PERSONALITY, BIOLOGY
& SOCIETY -- a
STUDENT GUIDE and RESOURCE MANUAL covering the thirty main topics and arguments
in differential psychology (the study of personality and individual
differences). Quotations from academic, literary and journalistic sources
illustrate points of view about:
mind & body, consciousness, hemispherology, nature & nurture,
dimensions of personality, identity and the self, intelligence, psychometrics, personality testing,
psychopathology, multiple personality, crime, creativity, psychoanalysis,
psycho-social engineering, vocational guidance, group
differences (age, sex, class and race)
and political psychology. Special coverage is given to
sex and aggression; to the everyday psychological concepts of heart, mind,
soul, spirit, will and conscience; and to the merits of individualizing therapy
and education. For all topics, contact crispian@chris-brand.co.uk.
An Ohio reader comments: "P,B&S is fascinating, helpful, humane
and balanced -- a real exercise in dialogue across the fractured subject of modern
psychology." A Chicago reader (a leading US commentator) calls the
collection "stupendous" and says: "Anyone looking for quotes to
spice up an article, or just to get an overview of the different sides of major
arguments can make good use of this."
For an
introduction to the Quotes and to the subject of differential psychology, go to
P, B & S Introduction.
To request that the latest versions of particular documents be posted, see
instructions re http://www.god.co.uk at the end of the present
document. For a summary of modern personality dimensions and scales for use in
personality research, go to Comprehensive
Six.
Obituary
for Hans Eysenck D.Sc.; author of Sense and Nonsense in
Psychology, Crime and Personality, Race, Intelligence and
Education, Psychology is about People, The Inequality of Man,
Intelligence: The Battle for the Mind [with Leon Kamin] and Genius;
1916-1997.
What about Sir Cyril Burt? What was discovered in a
most searching, scholarly, Cambridge-led enquiry into Leon Kamin's allegations
against Sir Cyril Burt? If Burt had no data, how did his estimate of the IQ
correlation between separated identical twins (rMZA = .78) agree so well
with findings by later psychologists?
What
about Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg? For comments on the
recent work of these and other modern academic psychologists concerned with intelligence,
learning and education, see this review of the London CIBA Symposium on
giftedness. (Mike Anderson, Douglas Detterman and Robert Plomin all feature.
Oh -- and Mystery Michael Who ooops Howe!) For Robert Sternberg's
attempted 'constructionist' revival of 1968-style 'labeling' ideas, see Competence
Reconsidered. For Gardner's continuing failure to deliver
evidence of his independent 'multiple intelligences' and educational schemes to
match, see McDougall NewsLetters passim, e.g. 13 x '98, 27 iv '99. For the
failure of Sternberg, Gardner and Stephen Ceci to produce a
social-environmentalistic theory of intelligence differences that even begins
to account for data, see 'IQ heritability -- the emptiness of modern
environmentalism.'
What
about Leon Kamin? For a reply to Kamin's attack on Richard
Herrnstein & Charles Murray's The Bell Curve, see this letter sent
to Scientific American.
What about Arthur Jensen's The G Factor? For reviews of Art
Jensen's 'New Testament' sequel to his 'Old Testament' Bias in Mental
Testing, see the McDougall NewsLetter for 2 June 1998 and
subsequently.
Alfred Adler's
'individual psychology' -- Adler is normally considered a bit
of a wimp; and he was certainly unhappy with IQ. Yet he identified key personality
processes and distinctions, notably in birth order and dreams. His views would
arguably have been easier to vindicate if IQ had been taken into account.
Phil Rushton's r - K factor -- Rushton hypothesizes
a major broad dimension of human personality differences. This involves the
relative size and productivity of the organs of generation and cogitation
respectively. There is, supposedly, a trade-off between sexual and intellectual
specialization. "Succinctly summarized," writes Rushton,
"more brains, fewer eggs, more K." Yet is there one such
broad dimension -- even involving, as Rushton believes, the g
factor? Or is it better to talk of some 5 or 6 distinct main personality
dimensions? And better for the West to go for contract choice rather
than for high K? {This review of r-K theory has its amusing side.
It was written by Chris Brand while Phil Rushton was weathering storms of
condemnation for 'racism.' Little did Brand realize that his own attempt to
explain today's scientific understanding of the g factor would soon have
him censored and sacked!}
What about race? How can the different rates of
economic progress between the world's different countries in the past half-century
be understood? Is the principal contrast simply that of capitalist laissez-faire
versus corporatist socialism? Might racial differences in IQ-type
intelligence provide explanations of persistent differences in well-being
that seem to baffle today's economists, sociologists, political scientists and
social anthropologists?
What about
age?
Like race, age has been envisaged by constructivists to be nothing but a social
invention. Like racism, ageism is fashionably deplored. Topics under 'The
psychology of ageing' include: Age differences asserted; Age differences
denied; 'lifespan development'; the role of g in ageing; ageism; and
Handy Tips…. Contact crispian@chris-brand.co.uk.
What about
education? (For more, contact crispian@chris-brand.co.uk.) For the reaction
of modern educationalists to the latest advances in differential psychology,
see 'Beware Educationalists!' in the McDougall NewsLetter for 19
May 1998. In fact, even the left-leaning website for educational sociology, http://sociology.wadsworth.com/andersen_diverse/resources/SG/ch15.html,
admits: "Most researchers and educators who have studied tracking agree
that not all students should be mixed together in the same classes."
Discussion of the pros and cons of 'tracking' (streaming, grade retention etc.)
can be found at http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Research5/UnitedStates/perception2.html
and in Chapter 4 of THE g FACTOR. For the FREE on-line 2001 edition of THE g
FACTOR, go to http://www.douance.org/qi/brandtgf.htm.
For the failure of both
left and right to consider IQ when formulating proposals to restructure or
compensate for modern state schooling, see http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/Ravitch010113.htm.
For the need to
educate boys and girls differently, see review
of Michael Gurian's 2001 bestseller Boys and Girls Learn Differently! at
Amazon Books.
What about eugenics? (For more, contact crispian@chris-brand.co.uk.)
Aren't eugenic ideas discredited? Mustn't talk of 'heritable IQ' lead
inevitably to the horrors of state control of procreation? -- Like today's 'New
Labour' welfare reformers in Britain, Brand thinks personal insurance schemes
will make for greater responsibility and well-being; but he also thinks girls
should be encouraged to early marriage and childbirth
so long as fathers are mature and above-average in IQ. [For a pretty full and up-to-date
reference list about eugenics past and present, giving both sides of the
argument, visit National Reference
Center for Bioethics Literature (Georgetown University). For articles and
websites dealing with eugenics, evolution, demography and racism, go to Plausible Futures
Newsletter.]
What about feminism? Brand's
explanation of how it was not 'antiracists', third-world students or victims of
paedophilia who had him sacked. Rather, Brand's enemies were mainly academic
(and not-so-academic) feminazies. (Go to 17 March 1998.) For the latest
lampooning of feminism by a psychologist, see http://www.geocities.com/ihatefeminism.
In 2001, Professor Kenneth Minogue wrote perceptively of feminazism (New Criterion
19): "My view is, then, that the radical feminist revolution is
nothing less than a destruction of our civilization. It has all happened in
such a way that people have not yet realized what has happened."
What about the 'Third Way'? President Clinton and
Prime Minister Blair and Germany's Herr Schroeder ['Herr Blair'] have all
worked on a re-articulation of left-wing ideas so as to drop the less satisfactory
bits (socialism, equalization of incomes, nationalization, high taxes, prices
& incomes policy etc.). What is the deal here? And does the right have its
own corresponding reworking of its values -- its own 'Fourth Way'?
(The article was published in Sweden's Financial Times.)
What about conservatism?
Brand's review of the Spanish conservative Ortega y Gassett tries to pinpoint
what went wrong.
SMOKERS' CORNER Psychologists today are under pressure from their universities to accept
money for any 'research' whatsoever. Usually, accepting state moneys skews
their research toward 'political
correctness' and kindred piety. But see also: 'What psychologists will do for tobacco.'
SPANKERS' CORNER For the past two
decades, social psychologists have despaired of obtaining decent research
results explaining anything that happens in the real world. Thus they have taken
up hermeneutics, constructivism, deconstructivism, reconstructivism and kindred
post-war French-leftist forms of philosophical idealism -- the notion
that only ideas really exist. Now, however, two brave American psychologists
aim to bring back realism with their exciting claim that political conservatism
and allied evils are traceable quite simply to the
excesses of bottom-spanking.
FAIRLY NORMAL
HETEROSEXUALS' CORNER This essay reviews the history of
sexual endeavour in the twentieth century -- especially including gangbangs in
Moscow involving Leonid Brezhnev's daughter and a trapeze artist -- and points
the way ahead to sex without limits.
The n Factor
"Levels of neuroticism/emotionality seem higher
in art students, children of higher 'musicality', creative painters and
sculptors, ballet dancers, actors, musicians and designers, operatic sopranos and
tenors, novelists and first-rank philosophers; and n correlates with
extravagant intensity of romantic experience. ….n promises to be -- next
to g -- the second variable in differential psychology of which a fairly
full and secure account can be offered." Currently in
process of publication by Oxford University Press, Pvt. Ltd.
William McDougall FRS -- article by
Brand in PINC, the Internet magazine for the
'Politically Incorrect.' William McDougall, FRS (1871-1938) was the Oxford and
Harvard psychologist who stood up for 'nature' while behaviourists were
converting psychologists to believe in 'nurture.' PINC is also
serializing Brand's 'intellectual memoirs' -- going back to his first
sexploits ooops academic breakthroughs in Oxford around the time of the 'Jensen
heresy' [1969].
The
William McDougall NewsLetter (1997-2000) -- incorporating The g Factor NewsLetter. McDNL gave news and comment
on topics in and around differential psychology as PeeCee mounted in the West,
even moving to impose multiculturalism by force of arms in Kosovo.
Regular features:
Political Correctness and Censorship; Race and Racism; Sex, Sexism and
Feminazism; IQ Realism; Africa Realism; Environmentalunacy; Educalunacy; Fast
Track Learning; Looneyversities; Eugenics Realism; Paedohysteria, Presidential
Polygamy; Abusohysteria and False Memory Syndrome; Multiculchalunacy.
Many back issues are still on the Net, but otherwise can be obtained as
email attachments from cbrand@cycad.com.
You would like to read boring ooops careful position statements by modern
hereditarians / race realists who have managed to keep their jobs in
academia? In particular, click here if you would like to hear whether the
White-Black difference in IQ scoring can be attributed to special factors like
White racism or to the special values held by Black people.
FOR SEVEN RECENT PUBLIC BOOK REVIEWS BY BRAND
DEALING WITH INTELLIGENCE, EDUCATION, EUGENICS AND RACE
GO TO http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/AGDMFV3NSIUCZ/1/ref=cm_mp_rv/102-0037650-1711374.
Books reviewed:
Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents by
Michael Gurian, et al.
Deafness, Deprivation, and IQ by Jeffery P. Braden
Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations by Richard Lynn
Intellectual Talent: Psychometric and Social Issues edited by Camilla
Persson Benbow and David Lubinski
Cyril Burt: Fraud or Framed? edited by N. J. MacKintosh (Review posted at http://jonjayray.tripod.com/burtdef.html)
Color Conscious by Amy Gutmann and Kwame Anthony
Appiah
The Educated Child: A Parent's Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Grade
by William J. Bennett, et al.
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You want to know who's winning the battle for the soul
of psychology these days?
NEW, NEW, NEW!
PSYCHOLOGY HALL OF FAME
The list below offers an assessment of which modern experts are best
known (on the Internet) in association with psychology. Candidates had to be
still alive in 1980 or later. The list includes many people whose primary
concerns are with philosophy,
literature, journalism, linguistics, biology, sociology, anthropology,
economics, neurology, genetics, psychiatry and criminology.
A Google search was made in June 2002 using the
authors' most commonly used name(s) in quotes together with the word psychology,
e.g. "Noam Chomsky" psychology. Where an author seemed best
known by his/her initials rather than Christian name, initials were used, e.g. "R.
J. Sternberg" psychology.
No-one
having less than 50 mentions is included here. This is an elite list and most
psychologists will not appear on it. (They can be content that they continue to
draw salaries for coping manfully day-by-day with the many feminazies for whom
Psychology has long seemed the most attractive university subject – Psychology
continues a most popular university subject, and 75% of its students are female
and require heavy-duty attention and counselling.)
Experts
of hereditarian inclinations on the list are shown in DARK TEAL or GREEN according to their apparent degree of commitment. GREEN is specially used for the many who
guess that – with regard to psychology and behaviour -- genetic and
environmental factors typically work in some kind of interaction but who also
believe such interactions can be analysed and are not inextricably mysterious.
Nativists who believe in the importance of genetic factors for the human
species but do not wish or dare to say much about individual or group
differences are shown in LIME GREEN. (Such
biologists, sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists typically wish to
deny any possibility of successful eugenic programs because 'genes do not
operate on their own, only in interaction with the environment.') More general
avoiders who probably accept genetic factors as having some importance in
psychology while actually saying little or nothing about them are shown in LIGHT ORANGE. Deniers of the straightforward
importance of genetic factors are shown in PINK.
(Few experts in and around psychology are frank environmentalists today.
Rather, the 'leftist' party line is to stress that genetic factors are only
influential in some – usually mysterious – 'interaction' with environmental
factors.) One or two possibly hard-core behaviourists remaining are suggested,
in RED. PLUM
is used for conspicuously non-reductionist positions, apparently doubting any
decisive influence of either environmental or genetic factors.
To
maintain a sense of proportion, the list's 'Division A' begins with a few of
the really great names from the distant past. The list also includes some
novelists and columnists – though their mentions may be artificially boosted by
Internet bookstores and the homepages of magazines which manage to link them
more widely than is usually achieved by academic authors.
Mentions
in later years (most increased by around 50% as the Net expands) are given in
square brackets [ ]. Notable
improvements are marked in bold red.
All suggestions for improvement will be
welcomed: Email crispian@chris-brand.co.uk.
Division
A
Plato 66,500[2003: 99,200] Aristotle
57,100[2003: 86,200] Kant 38,900[2003: 70,800] Descartes
34,500[2003: 51,200] William
Shakespeare* 29,100[2003: 21,100] Sigmund Freud 28,500[2003:
45,500] William James 25,000[2003: 39,00] (Charles) Dickens 20,200 Henrik Ibsen 18,500 (Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe 17,700 Carl/CarlGustav Jung [d. 1961] 15,050 (Lev) Vygotsky [d. 1934] 15,100[2003: 25,500]
(Saint) Augustine[excl.'college'] 14,300[2003: 22,000] Karl Marx 13,200[2001: 19,200 Charles Darwin 12,300[2003: 21,800] (Ivan) Pavlov [d. 1936] 12,100[2003: 17,900]
B. F. Skinner [d.
1990] 10,900[2003: 15,400] Noam Chomsky
9,840[2003: 17,700] Jean Piaget [d. 1980] 9,830[2003: 14,300] Carl Rogers [d. 1987] 6,660[2003: 11,000] Richard Dawkins 6,160[2003:
10,800] Michel Foucault [d. 1984]
5,850[2003: 10,400] Howard Gardner 5,790[2003: 9,530] Toni Morrison [Black
Nobelist, novelist] 5,740[2003: 18,700] Carl Sagan [d. 1996] 5,440[2003: 11,200] Dr. Laura [US broadcaster] 5,330[2003: 6,820] Stephen Jay/SJ/Stephen Gould [d.
2002] 5,000[2003: 9,900] Jean-Paul Sartre [d. 1981] 4,970[2003: 7,060]
Erik Erikson [d. 1994] 4,410[2003: 6,570]
Karl Popper [d. 1994] 4,310[2003: 7,520]
Herbert/HA/HerbertA Simon [computers, philos., cognitive; d. 2001]
4,250 .9Douglas Adams
['Hitchhiker's Guide'; d. 2001] 3,960
Steven Pinker 3,920[2003: 9,900] Daniel Goleman ['Emotional IQ'] 3,910 Jacques Derrida 3,900[2003:
5,660] Timothy Leary [d. 1996]
3,800 Daniel/DC/Dan Dennett 3,740 EO/Edward
Wilson 3,725[2003: 5,030] Rush Limbaugh [US broadcaster] 3,670 John Rawls
3,460 Jacques Lacan [d. 1981]
3,240 John Updike 3,130[2003:
3,540] Simone de Beauvoir [d. 1986]
3,120 Anna Freud [d. 1982]
3,080 Jane Goodall [chimpanzees] 3,040 Albert Bandura 2,950 Carol Gilligan 2,950 Jerome/JeromeS/JS Bruner 2,932 Alice Miller [child
psychoanalyst, esp. abuse] 2,920 RJ/Robert Sternberg 2,900 John/JR Searle
[philosopher] 2,850
Richard/RichardPhillips/RP Feynman [revered "scientist, teacher,
raconteur and musician"] 2,760
Marvin Minsky 2,750 (Aleksandr) Solzhenytsin 2,740 David Bohm
[transpersonal, postmodern, 'quantum metaphysics'; d. 1994] 2,690
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 2,660 Richard Rorty 2,590 Gregory Bateson [d. 1980]
2,580 George/GeorgeA/GA Miller
[cog,ling] 2,500 Vladimir Nabokov
2,380[2003: 2,520] AaronT/Aaron/AT
Beck 2,338 Rollo May [exstntl psy;
d. 1994] 2,290 Sir Roger/R Penrose
[math, computers, phil., cnscsnss] 2,290
David Chalmers 2,240
Douglas/DouglasR/DR Hofstadter [cog, comp, phil, lit, hist; Pulitzer
winner] 2,238 Oliver Sacks
2,210 Elizabeth/ElizabethF Loftus
[forensic, false memory] 2,200
Amos/A Tversky 2,180 Thomas Szasz
[anti-psychiatrist] 2,160 Jerry/JA/J Fodor 2,100 RD/Ronald Laing [exstntl psy.anlst; d. 1989] 2,095 Nathaniel Branden [clin., objectivist(AynRand follower)] 2,050 Francis Crick 2,050 Stanley Milgram
2,010 Edward Said [Islamicist]
2,010
* "Shakespeare's 'Prospero' laments that 'Caliban' is "A devil,
a born devil, on whose nature/ Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains/ Humanely
taken, all, all lost, quite lost". Instead, Prospero's attempts to
cultivate Caliban have only brought out the worst in Caliban, such as lust for
Miranda and discontent at his
inferior position. More significantly, Caliban has learnt to abuse the
gift of language which can be seen in his biting reply to Miranda, "You
taught me language; and my profit on't/ Is I know how to curse". However,
Caliban is not totally incapable of learning at a sensory level of pain. After
Prospero's punishment, Caliban knows he must never touch Miranda although he
does not understand why." Sia Rouh Phin, 1996, 'The
Tempest – Art vs Nature'.
Division
B
John Cage [avant-garde composer, Jungian,
Buddhist], 1,980[2003: 2,960] Viktor Frankl [existential psy; d. 1997] 1,920[2003: 2,860] Hans/HJ Eysenck [d. 1997] 1,900[2003: 2,680] Konrad Lorenz [d. 1989]
1,850[2003: 3,540] L/Leonard
Berkowitz 1,830 FA/Friedrich/FriedrichA Hayek [economist; d. 1992] 1,820
Paul Ricoeur [psan, narratives] 1,810[2003: 2,210] Hilary/H Putnam [philos.mind] 1,808 Lawrence Kohlberg [developmental
psychol; d. 1987] 1,800[2003: 2,500]
Charles Murray 1,770[2003:
2,450] Martin Seligman 1,770 Thomas Sowell [Black economist]
1,770 Sherry Turkle [computer
sociologist, ‘cybershrink’] 1,760
Donald Davidson [philos.mind] 1,700 John R. Anderson 1,660
DE/DavidE/David Rumelhart [cog:cnnctnst] 1,654 Edward de Bono 1,650 Saul
Bellow [novelist] 1,640 Daniel
Kahneman [reasoning] 1,620 Joyce Carol Oates [feminist, novelist, critic, academic] 1,590 Norman Mailer [novelist] 1,570 Camille Paglia 1,570 Jared Diamond
[biologist] 1,560 Ian Pitchford
[evopsych; editor of Internet magazines e.g. Human Nature Rv] 1,560 Leda Cosmides 1,550 Tom Wolfe [US
novelist] 1,550 John Bowlby [child
psychoanalyst; d.1990] 1,530 Jurgen Habermas ['reconstructed historical materialism'] 1,510 RobertM Young [evo/psychoanalytic; co-editor Human Nature]
1,470 Julia Kristeva [fmnst, lit.theory,
philos, psan, anti-racism] 1,460
Terry/T Winograd [comp, cog] 1,454
DavidG/DG Myers [soc., religion] 1,453 JL/JamesL/Jay McClelland [cog: 'PDP'] 1,446
Allen Newell [AI, cog; d. 1992]
1,400 Seymour Papert 1,400 Francisco/FranciscoJ Varela [brain&Buddhism;
d. 2001] 1,400 John Tooby 1,370 Philip/Phil/PG Zimbardo 1,370 James Q.
Wilson 1,340 Ian McEwan* [novelist] 1,290 Philip Roth [novelist] 1,290 Jerome Kagan 1,270 D/
Dante Cicchetti [dv,psypathol.,family] 1,262 Arthur/AR/Art Jensen 1,237 William (D) Hamilton [d. 2000] 1,230 Paul/PM
Churchland 1,220 Jon Elster
[polpsy] 1,220 RoyF/Roy/RF
Baumeister [soc:self-control,will] 1,215
Jonathan/.5J Baron [rationality,dcsn-making] 1,200 Ned Block [cogpsy] 1,180 Aaron Sloman [A.I.,cogpsy] 1,175 Hans-Georg Gadamer [hermeneutic,
cultural; d. 2002] 1,170 David
Horowitz [US columnist] 1,170 JW/JohnW Berry 1,164 Claude Levi-Strauss
[soc.anthrop.] 1,150 AlanE/AE
Kazdin [clin,child] 1,150 Endel/E
Tulving [prc, memory] 1,148
Alasdair MacIntyre [moral philos.] 1,140 Bruno Bettelheim [psychoanalyst; d. 1990] 1,130[2003: 2,150]
William F. Buckley [US columnist] 1,130 Wolfgang Stroebe [social] 1,128 Matt Ridley 1,120[2003: 3,830] Richard/RichardC/RC Lewontin
1,110 Iris Murdoch [novelist, d.
2001] 1,100[2003: 2,150]
DanielL/Daniel/DL Schacter [neurocognitive] 1,085 Emmanuel Levinas
[existentialist; d. 1995] 1,080[2003: 1,840] Chris/C. Argyris [I/Opsy] 1,077 CGeorge/George Boeree [prslty theory] 1,075
Kenneth/KJ Gergen [cnstrctnst] 1,072 John/JC
Marshall,Oxford 1,067[2003: 1,700] Claude/CE/ClaudeE Shannon [information
theory; d. 2001] 1,065 Leon/L
Festinger [cog.dissonance; d. 1989] 1,065
Solomon Asch [socpsy – conformity; d. 1996] 1,050 Steven Rose [UK neuroscientist] 1,050[2003: 1,500] Roger Schank [A.I.] 1,050 Patricia/PS Churchland 1,040 VS/Vilayanur Ramachandran [cogpsy]
1,040 Antonio Damasio [neuroscnc]
1,040[2003: 2,980] Robert/R Rosenthal 1,040 CharlesT Tart [para-, transpersonal
psy] 1,040 MI/Michael/MichaelI
Posner [neuropsychiat] 1,025
GH/Gordon Bower 1,018
Simon/S Baron-Cohen 1,015
Joseph/JosephE/JE Ledoux 1,010
E/Eleanor Rosch [cog&'heart'psy] 1,010 Ulric/U Neisser 1,000
* "Writing novels is a form of investigation into the human
condition . Novels have this extraordinary capacity, better than any other art
form, to go into other minds." --- Ian McEwan, 'Front Row', September
2001.
Division
C
Luce Irigaray [fmnst, psan, decnstrctn] 995[2003: 1,670] VS/Vilayanur Ramachandran [neuroscience] 990 Bernard Williams [philos: ethics]
986 Matthew Parris (Times
columnist) 978 Michael/M Ruse [evophilosopher] 976 Michael/ML Rutter 967 Germaine/G Greer 963 Ashley Montagu [social
anthropologist/environmentalist; d. 1999] 960[2003: 1,360] PB/PaulB Baltes [lifespan dv] 950 Julian
Jaynes
[evopsych, d. 1990] 938 Richard/RL/RichardL
Gregory
[perception] 936 KWarner/KW Schaie
[ageing] 936 Robert Cialdini
[person.&soc.psy] 929 StephenJ/Stephen/SJ Ceci 925 David/DM
Buss
923 Robert/RobertE/RE Ornstein [neuropsychiatry]
921 WV/WillardVanOrman/Willard
Quine [philos: Platonic realist; d. 2000]
913 CG/CGeorge Boeree [prs]
910 Nicholas Negroponte
[cmptr-aided design, media tech] 910
Jean Shinoda Bolen [Jungian, women] 897 Roger Schank [A.I. person] 889 J. G. Ballard [novelist] 885 Roger/RogerW/RW Sperry [Nobelist, hemisphere spclztn] 883 Walter/W Kintsch [cog,ling] 882 Michael W/Michael/MW Eysenck 873 Judith/J Rodin [health] 873 DL/DouglasL/Douglas Medin 860 Lynn/L Nadel [neurocog] 864 Carol Tavris [critical theory, anger,
gender] 858 Robert Plomin 855[2003: 1,100] Helen Fielding [creator of literate-chick 'Bridget Jones']
851 Philippe/JP/Phil
Rushton
850 Alan Kay [cmptrs, visionary]
846 Edward/Ed/EF
Zigler
845 JohnMaynard/JMaynard Smith 845 Michael/M
Argyle
840 RichardC/RC Atkinson [cog]
830 Adrian/A Furnham 830 Jeanne Brooks-Gunn [dev. psych.]
825 Andrea Dworkin 825[2003: 1,260] Bill Bryson ["funniest traveller
alive" -- Times] 821
Geoffrey/GeoffreyF/GF Miller [evopsy] 820 Germaine/G Greer 818
ST/SusanT/Susan Fiske [stereotyping] 806 Eduardo/E Salas [I/O: ergonomics] 804 Vicki/.4V Bruce 794 CR/Rick Snyder [clin.] 784 Stephen/StephenM/SM Kosslyn 780 Steve/S Duck [social] 770 MichaelA/MA/Michael Arbib [neurosci]
766 Natalie Zemon Davis
[historian, writer] 763 Richard/R Herrnstein [d. 1994] 763 Miles Hewstone [inter-group rlns]
755 Herbert/H Gintis
[econ/evopsych] 752 S/Silvan/SilvanS
Tomkins ['culture & clinic'] 746 Christina Hoff Sommers [anti-feminazist]
743 Martin Amis [novelist]
741 Gerald/G Edelman [neuropsy]
740 Frank Jackson [phil, cog]
724 Judith/JudithS/JS Wallerstein [family,
divorce] 724 Nicholas/NK/Nick
Humphrey 720 BenjaminB/BB
[txtbk7th.ed,child,clin,env] 715 Richard/.5R Lynn 710
Hans Moravec [robots] 710 Frank/FrankJ Sulloway [behav.scientist,historian]
710 Kenneth Gergen 709[2003: 970] Martin
Daly
[evopsych] 700[2003: 963]
Susan/SusanA/SA Greenfield [neuroscnc] 690 Max/M Coltheart 685
LarryR/LR/Larry Squire [memory] 685 Susan Faludi [anti-feminist] 678 M/Manfred Amelang [prs] 675 JeanBethke/Jean Elshtain [soc.&pol.ethics] 675 RM Lerner [dv, lifespan]
673 Anthony Storr [psychiatrist] 669
AS Byatt [novelist & critic] 665 Ray/R Bull [forensic] 663 Sandra/S Blakeslee [neuro] 662 Mary Midgley [philosopher] 659[2003:
902] GW/GlynW/Glyn Humphreys
[neurocog] 650 AlanS/AS Kaufman
[IQ] 649 Walter/W Mischel [personality]
643 Peter/P Carruthers [philos.of
psy] 648 Margo Wilson [evopsych] 643 Ernest/E Gellner [soc.anth, psan; d.
1995] 640 P. N./Philip
Johnson-Laird 640 Serge/S
Moscovici [soc.representation] 635
Alan/AS Baddeley 633
Richard/R Wiseman [parapsychol] 630 Robert/R Boyd,evolution [anthrop (vs evo)] 628 Christopher/C Jencks [liberal-left sociologist] 624 Paul de Man [exstntlst,
decnstrctnst] 624 Daryl/DarylJ/DJ
Bem [soc.,persnlty, gender] 622
Sandra Blakeslee [neuropsy, stress] 621 Alison/A Gopnik [ling., dv, cog] 620 Saul/SaulA Kripke [philos: modal logic]
620 Eleanor/EleanorE/EE Maccoby
615 Warren Farrell [gender issues]
613 Walter/W Mischel [situationist] 613 (Baroness) Susan Greenfield [neurophysiol] 612 Paul Theroux [novelist] 611 Zenon/ZenonW/ZW Pylyshyn [cog, comp]
606 Linda Chavez [US columnist] 602 Robert/RobertH Bork [jurist, philos.]
600 Paul/PaulR/PR Gross
[biologist/sociologist{?}, anti-constructivist] 600 Kevin/KB/KevinB MacDonald [evopsy, Judaism] 600 Henry/H Gleitman [cog, top textbk] 600 Peter/P Fonagy [psychoanalysis]
596 Uta/U Frith 588 K.J./Keith/KeithJ Holyoak [cogpsy]
588 Diana/D Deutsch [music]
582 JohnB/JB
Carroll
[educ., IQ] 580 JA/JohnA/John
Bargh [soc., nonconscious procs] 573
Jean-Francois
Lyotard
574 Mary Ainsworth [dv:attachment;
d. 1999] 573 MarilynnB/Marilynn/MB
Brewer [soc:cgntn,identity,biases] 567
Philip/P Pettit [politics] 562
DT/Daniel/Daniel T Gilbert [soc] 559 David Lodge [novelist] 558 Rom/R Harre [social psychologist] 556 Chris/Christopher/CR Brand 550 Richard/Jrichard/JR Hackman [applied] 550 Ben Elton [comic writer] 548 DonelsonR/DR/Donelson Forsyth [soc: gp
dynamics] 546 Paul/P Rozin
[cultural, psychoanalytic] 545 Randy/R Thornhill [evopsy] 545 David Lodge [comic novelist] 544 Hayden White [narratives] 539 Nicky Hayes [soc., rprsntn, gnrl] 538 Michael Morris [cmmnty,pltcl] 537 Daniel/D Schacter 534 E/Elizabeth Bates [dv. lang] 533 RL/RitaL/ Atkinson [daughter of RC
Atkinson] 530 MR/MarkR/Mark
Rosenzweig [memory] 530 Michael/M/Mick Billig [deconstructibabbler]
525 Sue/ES Savage-Rumbaugh [cmprtv
primate cgntn] 525 WilliamK/WK/William Estes [cog models] 525 Richard Sennett [sociol., narratives]
523 Nancy Eisenberg [Arizona,
empathy] 522 S/Steven Harnad 520 MA/MartinA/Martin Conway [memory]
518 DavidP/David Barash [evopsy] 517 Roger Scruton 515[2003: 1,010] John Shotter [constrctnst] 512[2003:
679] J/Jack Block [personality]
510 Mario Vargas-Llosa [novelist]
510 Lionel/L Tiger [anthrop, anti-racist: "Race seems real,
but it isn't."] 509 A/Andrew Whiten [evopsych] 507 MH/M Bornstein [dv, family] 504 John/JohnM/JM Darley social] 504 Susan Carey [dv., cog., phil.] 502
Robin/.5R Dunbar [evopsy] 500
Timothy/TA/TimothyA Salthouse [ageing] 500