Ed Manier received his B.S. degree (Sci/PP) from the University of Notre Dame, graduating with unquenched interests in biological evolution and the human brain. After a year of the basic medical sciences, he put science aside for the history of philosophy, completing research on The meanings of 'nature' in the philosophy of Leibniz,and receiving his Ph.D. (St. Louis University). During this time, he taught organic chemistry, embryology, and philosophy at Webster College, Webster, Groves, Mo. After joining the Philosophy Department at Notre Dame in 1959, he turned to the philosophy of biology, publishing a book on evolution, The young Darwin and his cultural circle, a study of the logic and language of the earliest drafts of the theory of the transmutation of species, following a sabbatical year of research in the Darwin archive, Anderson Room, University Library, Cambridge University, UK. In 1984, on leave at The College of Physicians and Surgeons, NYC, he studied the simplest system in cognitive neuroscience, the cellular and molecular structure of the Pavlovian learning mechanism. At the same time, he developed interests in the biological basis of the acquisition of birdsong (swamp sparrow) and of human language. This led to a sequence of courses and an international conference sponsored by the Reilly Center for the Study of Science and Technology, University of Notre Dame, Neurobiology and Narrative,seeking to locate research on neuropsychology, or cognitive neuroscience, in the broader context of contemporary social, artistic and philosophical concerns. In 1993-94, he was Visiting Tutor at Leverett House, Harvard College and Visiting Fellow, Psychology, McLean Branch, Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he studied basic and clinical research in the biopsychology of temperament and developmental psychopathology. He is currently organizing this material for a series Neurobiology and Narrative.
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