D. Evan Bedford: Master cardiologist and bibliophile

The Evan Bedford Library of Cardiology and its catalogue.

The history of doctors' private book collections was recently detailed by Thornton (1949) and started as early as the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the majority disappeared upon the death of the collector and no lists remain. These were purely working libraries initially, but true collections soon evolved. Francis Bernard, physician to James I, left nearly 15 000 books that were sold by au...

Evan Malone

We report on ongoing investigations of the potential for Solid Free-form Fabrication (SFF) processes to autonomously manufacture entire fully functional complex electromechanical systems, and of the application of such technology to a selfsustained robot ecology. Two complementary approaches are considered: (a) A universal fabrication system capable of autonomously manufacturing arbitrary machi...

Evan Graves

Evan Thompson Empathy and Consciousness

ion from, and hence presupposes, our empathic cognition of each other. The second side of the Dyad comes from cognitive science and is comparatively straightforward. My aim in putting the two together, side-by-side, is to create a kind of hub or axis for all of the many different issues that can be raised about intersubjectivity and consciousness as seen from the viewpoints of phenomenology and...

Evan Thompson Reply to Commentaries

Let me express my deep thanks to the contributors for taking the time to read my book, Mind in Life, and for writing their thoughtful commentaries, from which I have learned a great deal. Special thanks are due to Tobias Schlicht, whose hard work and dedication made this volume possible. In what follows, I will respond singly to each contributor (in alphabetical order) and do my best to address...