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DR. SUSAN BLACKMORE
Susan Blackmore, Ph.D. is a freelance writer, lecturer, and
broadcaster, and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of the West of
England, Bristol. Her research interests include memes, evolutionary
theory, consciousness, and meditation. She practices
Zen and campaigns
for
drug legalization. She
no longer works on the
paranormal.
Sue is on the Advisory Boards of the
Journal of Memetics and the
Center for Naturalism and is Consulting Editor of the
Skeptical Inquirer.
She writes for several magazines and newspapers, a
blog for the
Guardian newspaper and is a frequent contributor and presenter on radio
and
television. She is author of over sixty academic articles, about
forty book contributions, and many book reviews.
She authored
Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the
Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human,
The Meme Machine,
Consciousness: An Introduction,
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction,
In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist,
and
Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences.
Read the
full list of her publications!
Sue earned her BA (Hons) in Psychology and Physiology at the
University of Oxford, St Hilda's
College in 1973, her MSc in Environmental Psychology at the University
of Surrey in 1974 with the thesis "The after-effects of stressful
noise", and her PhD in Parapsychology at the University of Surrey in
1980 with the thesis "Extrasensory Perception as a Cognitive Process".
She received the Distinguished Skeptics Award in 1991.
Watch her
Darwin Day Celebration
Lecture 2007.
Listen to her
debate with Alister McGrath on whether God is a dangerous delusion.
Listen to her
interviews with
Dan
Dennett,
VS
Ramachandran, and Francis Crick.
Listen to her lecture
The Future of Memetics.
Read
Genes, Memes, and Temes, and
Why I'm leaving.
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