Curator in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Born in England and raised in East Africa, he has carried out both primatological and paleontological fieldwork in countries as diverse as Madagascar, Vietnam, Surinam, Yemen and Mauritius.
Curator in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Born in England and raised in East Africa, he has carried out both primatological and paleontological fieldwork in countries as diverse as Madagascar, Vietnam, Surinam, Yemen and Mauritius. Trained in archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge, and in geology and vertebrate paleontology at Yale, Tattersall has concentrated his research since the 1960s in three main areas: the analysis of the human fossil record and its integration with evolutionary theory, the origin of human cognition, and the study of the ecology and systematics of the lemurs of Madagascar. Tattersall is also a prominent interpreter of human paleontology to the public, with several trade books to his credit, among them Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves (with Rob DeSalle, 2007), The Monkey in the Mirror (2002), Extinct Humans (with Jeffrey Schwartz, 2000), Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness (1998), The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives (1995; rev. 1999) and The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution (1995; 2nd. ed. 2009) as well as several articles in Scientific American and the co-editorship of the definitive Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory. He lectures widely at venues around the world, and, as curator, has also been responsible for several major exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, including Ancestors: Four Million Years of Humanity (1984); Dark Caves, Bright Visions: Life In Ice Age Europe (1986); Madagascar: Island of the Ancestors (1989); The First Europeans: Treasures from the Hills of Atapuerca (2003); the highly acclaimed Hall of Human Biology and Evolution (1993), and most recently the successor Hall of Human Origins (2007).
Humanities Distinguished Professor in Philosophy, Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science, and Distinguished University Scholar at The Ohio State University, Columbus. His took his Ph.D. in logic, and his B.A in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He also holds a Diplom from the Goethe Institut. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia, an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and an Associate of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He has strongly interdisciplinary interests.
Humanities Distinguished Professor in Philosophy, Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science, and Distinguished University Scholar at The Ohio State University, Columbus. His took his Ph.D. in logic, and his B.A in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He also holds a Diplom from the Goethe Institut. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia, an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and an Associate of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He has strongly interdisciplinary interests. He has held fellowships from both the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (for work in philosophy of biology) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (for work on rational belief revision). His research has also been funded by the British Academy (for work in philosophy of biology) and by the Australian Research Council (for work on computational logic). He is an ex-President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy and has served as editor of the American Philosophical Quarterly. His research interests include logic (philosophical, mathematical and computational), philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science (especially biology) and philosophy of language. His books include Natural Logic and Autologic (both with Edinburgh University Press), Anti-Realism and Logic and The Taming of The True (both with Oxford University Press), and Philosophy, Evolution and Human Nature (Routledge and Kegan Paul, co-authored with the behavioral geneticist Florian Schilcher). Tennant has authored numerous publications in scholarly journals, applying both logical methods and scientific theory to various philosophical problems. His contributions include his constructive and relevant system of core logic; a naturalizing, evolutionarily informed account of human nature; application of proof-theoretic methods to problems in the philosophy of logic and in automated deduction; extension of the methods of natural deduction to provide a logicist foundation for arithmetic; his anti-realist treatment of the problem of truth and knowability; and his computationally implementable account of rational belief-revision.
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT, and Research Associate at the University of Chicago. His recent work analyzes the dynamics of enterprise and the role of financial systems in developing economies by studying applied dynamic general equilibrium models and contract theory. Townsend earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota. He began his work as a theorist working on general equilibrium models, contract theory, and mechanism design.
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT, and Research Associate at the University of Chicago. His recent work analyzes the dynamics of enterprise and the role of financial systems in developing economies by studying applied dynamic general equilibrium models and contract theory. Townsend earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota. He began his work as a theorist working on general equilibrium models, contract theory, and mechanism design. His contributions in econometrics include the study of risk and insurance in developing countries, and his work on village India was awarded the Frisch Medal in 1998. Since 1997, Townsend has been conducting large-scale surveys in Thailand. With this rich source of data, he is able to look at detailed economic activity and wealth creation, and test models on financial regimes, the role of informal networks, village loan funds, and the role of enterprise. Townsend has served in a number of academic and scientific advisory roles, including the MIT Press Editorial Board, CEMFI, NORC’s Population Research Center, ICRISAT, and the National Science Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Elected Fellow of The Econometric Society. He is an advisor and consultant for international institutions and government agencies including the World Bank, the IMF, and IADB.
Senior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, and Academic Director of its Centre for the Study of Religion in Public Life. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. From 2007-10, Trigg was the co-principal investigator on an interdisciplinary research program on the cognitive science of religion and its implications, between the University of Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre and its Centre for Anthropology and Mind.
Senior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, and Academic Director of its Centre for the Study of Religion in Public Life. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. From 2007-10, Trigg was the co-principal investigator on an interdisciplinary research program on the cognitive science of religion and its implications, between the University of Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre and its Centre for Anthropology and Mind. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books on philosophy, including the intersection of religion, science, and public life. His latest book is Equality, Freedom and Religion, Oxford University Press, 2011. Trigg serves as a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton, was the founding president of the British Society for Philosophy of Religion, and is a past president of the Mind Association, Most recently (2008-10), he has been president of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion.