User:Eolai1/Sean O Nuallain

Sean O Nuallain holds an M.Sc. in Psychology from University College, Dublin (UCD) Ireland & a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He has been a visiting scholar at  both Stanford and UC Berkeley, eventually being appointed a faculty member by academic senate in both institutions,  and directs the independent non-profit Nous Research and  the independent college trading as University of Ireland in the US. He is the author of a book on the foundations of Cognitive Science: "The Search for Mind" (Ablex, 1995; 2nd ed Intellect, 2002; Third edition Intellect, 2003 and co-editor of "Two Sciences of Mind" (with Paul Mc Kevitt and Eoghan Mac Aogain (Benjamins, 1997); editor of "Spatial Cognition"; co-editor of "Language, Vision, and Music" (Benjamins, 2002) and of "Mind in Interaction" (Benjamins, in preparation). His "Being Human: the Search for Order" (Intellect, 2002) sold out its first print-run immediately and has been published in a second edition (2004).

He worked the French jazz circuit and the American folk circuit between 2002 and 2005 as a guitarist with his partner Melanie O' Reilly after winning a landmark judgement preserving academic tenure in Ireland. In recent years, he has published with Walter Freeman, Richard Strohman of UC Berkeley, as well as being a single author of biology and neuroscience refereed papers, and had his courses at Stanford endorsed by Patrick Suppes. He is also an avid sportsman who has won squash championships in Ireland, the US, and Canada.