Eric P. Charles is an assistant professor of psychology at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona. He did his undergraduate work in animal behavior at Bucknell University. He received his PhD in psychology from UC Davis and did postdoctoral research at Clark University. His empirical research concentrates on active looking and mathematical modeling of visual stimuli. His theoretical and historic work has focused on E. B. Holt’s unique approach to behaviorism.
Alan Costall is a professor of ecological psychology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His theoretical and historical work examines the origins of the dualistic thinking that pervades modern psychology, and attempts to develop an alternative approach by drawing, in a critical way, upon pragmatism, phenomenology, and ecological psychology. His research interests are wide, including children’s drawings, psychology of art, music perception, perfect pitch, autism, event perception, the meanings of things (“affordances”), so-called theory of mind, and anthrozoology. His books include Against Theory of Mind, with Ivan Leudar (2009, Palgrave Macmillan); Doing Things with Things: The Design and Use of Everyday Objects, with Ole Dreier (2006, Ashgate); Against Cognitivism: Alternative Foundations for Cognitive Psychology, with Arthur Still (1991, Harvester-Wheatsheaf); and Cognitive Psychology in Question, also with Arthur Still (1987, Harvester-Press).
Kai Hamburger received his diploma in psychology from the University of Frankfurt (Germany) and his Doctor of Science from the University of Giessen (Germany), where he remains as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Research. His research interests include implicit and explicit navigation by use of landmarks, and the relevance of such behavior to the construction of virtual environments, and understanding visual illusions, especially those that may shed light onto neural mechanisms underlying perception.
Harry Heft is professor of psychology at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, USA. He is the author of Ecological in Context: James Gibson, Roger Barker, and the Legacy of William James’s Radical Empiricism (2001, Erlbaum). His published articles examine issues relating to ecological psychology, environmental perception, environmental aesthetics, way-finding, children’s environments, and the history of psychology.
Joel Michell is an honorary associate professor in the School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Australia, where he taught history and philosophy of psychology and psychometrics for 32 years prior to his retirement in 2004. He is the author of Introduction to the Logic of Psychological Measurement (1990, Erlbaum) and Measurement in Psychology: Critical History of a Methodological Concept (1999, Cambridge University Press); coeditor of At Once Scientific and Philosophic: A Festschrift for John Philip Sutcliffe (1996, Boombana Publications); and has published articles in psychology and philosophy journals, encyclopedias, and other collections. His current research interests include the relevance of realist metaphysics to psychology.
Thomas Natsoulas is an emeritus professor of psychology at UC Davis. He received his bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College and his doctorate from the University of Michigan. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Wesleyan University, University of Wisconsin, and UC Davis. For several years after his retirement from teaching, he was a research professor at UC Davis. His research consists of theoretical and scholarly work in consciousness and perception. Past scientific articles of his can be found in such journals as American Journal of Psychology, American Psychologist, Behaviorism, Consciousness and Emotion, Imagination, Cognition and Personality, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Journal of Mind and Behavior, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Research, and Review of General Psychology. He is currently at work on a book for Cambridge University Press titled Consciousness and Perceptual Experience: An Ecological and Phenomenological Approach. Professor Natsoulas is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.
Robert Shaw is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut. There he is an active founding member of the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action. On his retirement, two issues of the Ecological Psychology journal with invited papers were dedicated to him. His published articles examine issues relating to ecological psychology, ecological physics, intentional dynamics, and the history and philosophy of psychology. He is the founding and continuing president of the Society of Ecological Psychology, for which he helped establish a book series, a journal, and biannual international conferences.
Arthur G. Shapiro is an associate professor of psychology at American University in Washington DC. He did his undergraduate work in mathematics (computer science) and psychology (cognitive science) at UC San Diego. He received his PhD in psychology from Columbia University and did postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. His research concentrates on color, motion, visual camouflage, and low-light-level vision. He is best known for creating a series of visual phenomena (“illusions”) that have arisen from this research. The illusions elucidate the connections between perception, the brain, and the physical world and have been regularly recognized in international contests associated with vision science conferences.
Eugene Taylor holds an AB and MA in general/experimental psychology with a minor in Asian studies under the psychophysicist William H. Tedford and the comparative religionist and Indian Mahayana Buddhist scholar Frederick Streng. He also holds a PhD in the history and philosophy of psychology under the late Sigmund Koch. He is a professor of psychology at Saybrook University, lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and senior psychologist on the Psychiatry Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His publications include, among others, William James on Exceptional Mental States: Reconstruction of the 1896 Lowell Lectures (1982, University of Massachusetts); William James on Consciousness Beyond the Margin (1996, Princeton University); with Eugene Taylor and Robert Wozniak (Eds), Pure experience: The Response to William James (1996, Thoemmes); and the forthcoming William James on the Spiritual Roots of American Pragmatism. His most recent book is The Mystery of Personality: A History of Psychodynamic Theories (2009, Springer).
Nicholas S. Thompson is a professor emeritus of ethology and psychology at Clark University. He served for many years as the editor or co-editor of the Perspectives in Ethology book series, co-edited Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals (with Robert Mitchell and Lyn Miles) and Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit (with Mitchell), and co-authored an introductory psychology textbook (with Jim Laird). He has studied communication in primates, crows, and other corvids, human-canine interactions, and parent-infant interactions. For several years he coordinated the International Corvid Newsletter. He has been intensely concerned with the problem created by conflating description and explanation in psychological and evolutionary theory. Under his pen name, Calvin Simonds, he has published several books and popular articles about nature and gardening, including The Private Life of Garden Birds.
François Tonneau has taught or done research in France, the United States, Mexico, and Spain. He is now an associate researcher in psychology at the University of Minho in Portugal. His experimental research concerns basic behavioral processes of reinforcement and extinction across time, Pavlovian correlations and function transfer, and, in collaboration with Michel. B. C. Sokolowski, group choice. His theoretical interests range from the relations between psychology and evolutionary biology to metaphysics and the philosophy of consciousness, with a special interest in direct theories of perception and memory.
Jaan Valsiner is professor of psychology at the Department of Psychology, Clark University. He is the founding editor of the journal Culture & Psychology, and the author of several books, including The Guided Mind, Culture and Human Development and Comparative Study of Human Cultural Development, and is editor of Thinking in Psychological Science.
Cornelis de Waal received his PhD from the University of Miami in 1997. Currently, he is an associate professor in the philosophy department and associate editor at the Peirce Edition Project, both at Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis. He is also the Peirce editor for the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. In addition to his work on the Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition (1981, Bloomington), he has written or edited several books, including On Peirce (2001, Belmont), the three-volume American New Realism 1910–1920 (2001, Bristol), On Mead (2002), On Pragmatism (2005, Belmont), and The Normative Thought of Charles S Peirce (New York, forthcoming).