Imaginative Minds: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

30 April-1 May 2004

The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

Daniel Nettle

Daniel Nettle teaches in the division of Psychology, Brain and Behaviour at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. With a PhD from an anthropology department, a job in psychology, and publications ranging over language and linguistics, cognition, psychopathology, human diversity, and Shakespearean drama, he likes to consider himself an inter-disciplinarian. He believes in taking Theodysius Dobzhansky's dictum that nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution literally. He is author of The Fyem Language of Northern Nigeria (Munich 1998), Linguistic Diversity (Oxford 1999), Vanishing Voices (New York 2000, with Suzanne Romaine), and Strong Imagination: Madness,
Creativity and Human Nature (Oxford, 2001). His new book Happiness: The Science of Well-Being will be published by Oxford in 2005.