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DYLAN
EVANS: PUBLICATIONS
1. Books:
2004 (edited with Pierre Cruse) Emotion,
Evolution and Rationality . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2003 Placebo: The Belief Effect
. London: Harper Collins. Republished by Harper Collins as Placebo:
Mind over Matter in Modern Medicine in 2004.
2001 (with Howard Selina)
Introducing Evolution. London: Icon, and New York: Totem.
2001 Emotion: The Science of
Sentiment . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1999 (with Oscar Zarate)
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology. London: Icon, and New York:
Totem.
1996 An Introductory
Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. London & New York:
Routledge.
2. Papers in peer-reviewed academic journals:
2005 ‘Suppression of the acute-phase
response as a biological mechanism
for the placebo effect’ Medical
Hypotheses, 64: 1-7.
2002 ‘Pain, evolution and the placebo
response’ Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 25 (4): 459-460.
2002 ‘The search hypothesis of
emotion’ The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 53
(4): 497-509.
1997 ‘The lure of the already there and the lure of the before:
psychoanalytic theory and historiography’ Journal for the
Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 2 (1): 141-45.
1996 ‘Historicism and Lacanian
theory’ Radical Philosophy 79: 35-40.
1995 ‘Successful misunderstanding: the dialogue between cultural theory
and psychoanalysis’ diatribe 5: 57-62.
3. Papers in
conference proceedings:
2008 Paper submitted .... watch this space.
2005 (with Karen
Bultitude, Ben Johnson, Frank Burnet and Alan
Winfield) ‘Robot Thought - A dialogue event for family audiences’, Proceedings
of the AISB’05 Symposium on Robotics, Mechatronics and Animatronics in
the Creative and Entertainment Industries and Arts,
University of Hertfordshire, pp. 14-21.
2003 (with Annerieke Heuvelink
and Daniel Nettle) ‘The evolution of optimism: a multi-agent based
model of adaptive bias in human judgement’, Proceedings of the
AISB’03 Symposium on Scientific Methods for the Analysis of
Agent-Environment Interaction , University of Wales, pp.20-25.
4. Chapters and other contributions to edited books:
2006 ‘Secular fundamentalism’ in Debating Humanism, ed. Dolan
Cummings, Societas Imprint Academic: Exeter, pp.12-21.
2005 ‘From Lacan to
Darwin’ in The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of
Narrative, eds. Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan
Wilson, Evanston: Northwestern University
Press, pp38-55.
2005 Entry on ‘Emotion’ in Encyclopedia of Science,
Technology, and Ethics. Ed. Carl Mitcham. Detroit: Macmillan
Reference USA.
2005 ‘Fool others into feeling
better’, Hack #73 in Mind Hacks:
Tips and Tools for Using your
Brain in the World, by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb, Sebastopol,
CA: O'Reilly, pp.242-45.
2004 Entry on ‘Placebo’ in The Oxford Companion to
the Mind,
Second Edition, ed. Richard Gregory, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, pp.733-35.
2004 ‘The search hypothesis of emotion’ in Emotion, Evolution, and
Rationality, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press,
pp.179-191. (Reprint of Evans, D. (2002) ‘The
search hypothesis of emotion’ The British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science , 53 (4): 497-509. )
2003 ‘Are we all mad?’ in A Very Short Introduction to Everything
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.91-92.
2001 Entries on ‘Evolution’, ‘Instinct’, and ‘Sociobiology’ in The
Oxford Companion to
the Body, eds. Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett, Oxford: Oxford
University Press , pp.259-60, 403, 633-34.
2001 (with
Lewis Wolpert) ‘Malignant sadness: the evolutionary psychology of
depression’, in Every Family in the Land: Understanding Prejudice
and Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness , ed.
Arthur H. Crisp
1998 ‘From Kantian ethics to mystical experience: an exploration of
jouissance’, in Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis , ed.
Dany Nobus, London: Rebus Press, pp.1-28.
5. Articles in newspapers, magazines,
newsletters, periodicals and commercial websites:
2007 ‘Letter from Utopia: Oh dear,
someone's getting cold feet’, The
Times, 8 June 2007
2007 ‘Letter from Utopia: Sound of
music is sorely missed’, The Times,
11 May 2007
2007 ‘Letter from Utopia: Religion
or a lifestyle choice? Pass the gravy’,
The Times, 27 April 2007.
2006
‘Teaching robotics with LEGO Mindstorms’, Nesta Futurelab March 2006,
http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art74.htm
2006 ‘The savage solution’, The
Guardian, 27 February 2006, p.33.
2005 ‘A risk of total collapse’, The
Guardian, 21 December 2005, p.29.
2005
‘The loss of utopia’, The
Guardian, 27 October 2005, p.32.
2005 ‘Mozart redeems my mediocrity’, The
Guardian, 21 July 2005, p.26.
2005
‘Not a nerd in sight’, The
Times Higher Education Supplement, 17 June 2005, p.13.
2005 ‘Beethoven was a
narcissistic hooligan’, The
Guardian, 7 June 2005, p.21
2005
‘The 21st century atheist’, The
Guardian, 2 May 2005, p.15.
2005
‘Hawking started it’, The
Guardian, 10 March 2005, p.21.
2004 ‘Can robots have
emotions?’, Psychology
Review Vol. 11, No.1 (September 2004) pp.2-5.
2004 'Mean machines', The Guardian,
29 July 2004, Online supplement,
pp.8-9.
2004 ‘Robots of the future’, http://www.firstscience.com,
24 July 2004.
2004 ‘Windows won't be enough to
keep out terrorists’, Financial Times, 7 May 2004.
2003 ‘Smash the Windows’, The
Guardian, 6 November 2003, p.26.
2003 ‘The evolution of optimism: an agent-based model of
adaptive bias’, AISB Quarterly, No.113, Summer
2003, p.8.
2002 ‘Scary movies’, Scriptwriter, Issue 4, May 2002, pp.28-29.
2002
‘You make my heart beep’, The Guardian , 14 February 2002,
Online supplement p.11.
2001
‘It’s the thought that counts’, The Guardian Weekend , 6
October 2001, pp.62-68.
2001 ‘Think yourself healthy’, Red, September 2001, pp.217-218.
1999 ‘The social competition hypothesis of depression’, ASCAP
Newsletter Vol 12 no.3 (March 1999) pp.12-15
1998 ‘The arbitrary ape’, New
Scientist Vol 159 No 2148, 22 August, 1998, pp.32-35.
1996 ‘Pulling power’, The Guardian 7 May 1996.
1995 ‘Current criticisms of psychoanalysis’, The Psychoanalysis
Newsletter , 15: 7-16.
1995 ‘Science and truth:
an introduction (I)’, Newsletter of the
London Circle of the European School of Psychoanalysis , I, 1: 4-8.
1995 ‘Psychobabble and paranoia’, The Guardian 22 November
1995, section 2 page 3.
1994 ‘Psychoanalysis in Argentina’, The Psychoanalysis Newsletter
, 14: 13-17.
6. Book reviews:
2007‘We're
all doomed’ (review of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe,
Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas
Homer-Dixon), The Guardian, 21 July 2007.
2005 ‘Robots have feelings too’
(review of Who
Needs Emotions? The Brain Meets the Robot ed. Jean-Marc Fellous
& Michael A. Arbib), Nature
,
437 (7055): 35, 1 September 2005.
2005 ‘A happy gathering’ (multiple
book review), Nature, 436 (7047): 26-7, 7 July
2005.
2005
‘A stab in the dark’ (review of The
Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai), The
Guardian, 11 June 2005.
2005 ‘Fasten your seatbelts’ (review
of Emotional Rollercoaster by
Claudia Hammond), The Guardian,
5 March 2005.
2004 ‘Fighting philistines’ (review
of Where have all the
Intellectuals Gone? by Frank Furedi), The Guardian, 11
December 2004.
2004 Review of Natural-Born
Cyborgs:
Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence by Andy
Clark, Connection Science, Volume 16 (1): 67-68.
2004 ‘A robot to DIY for’ (review of Growing
up with Lucy by Steve Grand), The Guardian, 27 March 2004.
2003 ‘Feeling friendly’ (review of Looking for Spinoza by
Antonio Damasio), New Humanist, Summer 2003, p.35.
2003 ‘The one that got away’ (review
of A Computer Called LEO
by Georgina Ferry), The Guardian , 24 May
2003.
2003 ‘Natural gold dust’ (review of
Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human by
Matt Ridley), The Evening Standard, 31 March 2003.
2002 ‘All in the baby’s mind’
(review of The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker), The Evening Standard , 9 September 2002.
2002
‘Robot wars’ (review of Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines
by Rodney A Brooks), The Guardian , 20 April 2002.
2002
Review of The Mind Made Flesh: Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution
by Nicholas Humphrey, Human Nature Review , Volume 2: 88, 26
February 2002.
2001
‘Zoo management’ (review of Managing the Human Animal by Nigel
Nicholson), The Guardian, 10 February 2001.
2001 ‘Not so crazy after all’
(review of Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature
by Daniel Nettle), Nature 409: 284, 18 January 2001.
2000 Review of Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions edited by
Alexander Laban Hinton, The Galton Institute Newsletter , June
2000, pp.6-7.
2000
‘Art for partner's sake’ (review of Promiscuity by Tim
Birkhead and The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller), The
Guardian , 6 May 2000.
2000 ‘Medicine’s least respectable
branch?’ (review of A Century of Psychiatry edited by Hugh
Freeman), Nature 403 (6795): 19-20, 6 January 2000.
1999
‘Loitering in Eden’ (review of Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of
Species Updated by Steve Jones), The
Guardian, 18 September 1999.
1999 ‘A sickness called therapy’ (review of Manufacturing Victims:
What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People by Tanna Dineen),
The Guardian , 28 August 1999.
1999 Review of Death Anxiety and Clinical Practice by Robert
Langs, Psychoanalytic Studies , vol.1, no.2: 238-240.
1999 Review of The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn out the
Way they Do by Judith Rich Harris, The Psychotherapy Review
, vol.1, no.1: 33-34.
1999 Review of Evolutionary
Genetics: Second Edition by John Maynard Smith, Cell Biology
International , vol.22, no.4: 327.
1998 Review of What is Disease? edited by James Humber and
Robert Almeder, British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science , 49: 348-350.
1997 Review of The Emptiness of the Image by Parveen Adams ,
UAPS Newsletter 6: 49-50.
1996 Review of Why Do Women
Write More Letters than they Post? by Darian Leader, UAPS
Newsletter 4: 15-17.
7. Fiction:
2005
‘The emperor's new clothes: a revision’, Entelechy: Mind and
Culture Fall 2005 / Winter 2006. http://www.entelechyjournal.com
This page was last updated: 20 February 2008.
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