Member johnnylogic

Real Name

John Taylor

About Me

I am Data Analyst plying my trade in Portland, OR. Once upon a time I was a grad student student in Logic and Computation at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in philosophy of science and formal epistemology.

My undergraduate degrees are in philosophy and psychology (with a minor in computer information systems). My non-philosophical interests include complex systems theory, social psychology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary theory, perception, cognitive psychology, political theory, liberalism, propaganda, psychoceramics, the history of computing, and cognitive neuroscience.

I am culture junkie—both high and low. I spend more time than is decent reading feeds, newspapers, speculative fiction, journals, popular science, classic novels, graphic novels (ok, they are comics).

Location

Portland, OR USA

Homepage

http://www.johnnylogic.org/

Also On

Last.fm, LinkedIn, Wikipedia

Currently Reading

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Completely Revised and Updated Eighth Edition by Burton G. Malkiel

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer

Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions by Stephen L. Macknik

Favorite Authors

Greg Bear, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Michael Chabon, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Greg Egan, Harlan Ellison, Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, Ian Hacking, Stanisław Lem, Michael Lewis, Ken MacLeod, Vladimir Nabokov, Karl Popper, William Poundstone, Terry Pratchett, Bertrand Russell, Herbert A. Simon, Neal Stephenson, Vernor Vinge, Roger Zelazny

Member Connections

Friends

amorgo, ChrisRippel, cshalizi, firepile, j0ray, pdturney, phknrocket1k, robledo, scottja, totallymeat

Interesting Library

Benthamite, cshalizi, firepile, jgrann, keaswaran, scottja