Do you believe in 'zombies'?
How could conscious experiences affect brains? The simple answer is that they could not and do not. Yet we feel as though they do. This clash between the way things seem and the way they rationally...
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Thick on plot, but a little thin on theory
Multiple-choice question. Is this book: (a) "witty and ingenious"; (b) "ecstatically playful"; (c) too clever by half? Going for the third option puts me firmly into the philistine camp, opposed to...
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Ages of reason and rift
How Children Develop - An Introduction to Developmental Psychology
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Just try not to mind the time lapses
The History of Psychology
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Laurie Taylor Column
"The QAA intends to introduce a code of practice to ensure that PhD examining is standardised" - The Times Higher , March 19 Thank you, Gillian. That concludes your viva. If you wait in the Inquiries...
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Leader: Help the union to avoid last orders
The National Union of Students holds its annual conference next week with top-up fees naturally uppermost among the concerns of delegates. There will even be a day's break in the proceedings while...
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Leader: Promise must be kept
When even the prime minister acknowledges an £8 billion funding gap in higher education, it may seem craven to celebrate a budget that guarantees no more than a standstill in state funding per...
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Don't ignore unhappy students
Assessing student performance in examinations based on the content of lectures should be straightforward, but if universities adjust marks when things go wrong, a lack of transparency can leave...
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Testing times 1
Rawaa ("Animal tests 'upsetting but important'", March 19) is a young scientist who believes her experiments on rats are relevant to humans. As she progresses, however, she will discover that an...
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Testing times 2
Using a photograph of an attractive female undergraduate of African origin to expound the importance of animal testing is more of an infomercial than real news. Rawaa participates in a video made by...
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Fraught fortnight?
Surely two weeks is long enough to pen two pages ("Scientists given 2 weeks to plan 10-year vision", March 19)? Any scientist who has not been thinking about this for ages, and cannot write it in two...
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Back to Poppleton! 1
Laurie Taylor's view of York University sociology department is misleading ("Farewell to 'cuddly' ethos of yesteryear", March 19). Taylor implies that younger staff are on fixed-term contracts and...
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Back to Poppleton! 2
Laurie Taylor is right: things have moved on since he took his "lump sum" in 1995. We work under research and teaching pressures largely absent in previous generations and his account of our...
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Back to Poppleton! 3
If all of York University's sociologists shared Laurie Taylor's elitist views of social policy in the 1970s and 1980s, no wonder there was a schism in his department. Social policy research is...
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Back to Poppleton! 4
I was disappointed to find Laurie Taylor making fun of feminist research by singling out my presentation for the British Sociological Association conference "Wax, pluck or thread: Normalising hair...