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Lloyd,
Professor Daniel
Art and Mind
http://www.trincoll.edu/~dlloyd/
Dan Lloyd was born in
upstate New York and attended Oberlin College, earning a BA
in 1975 in English and Philosophy. He attended graduate school
at Columbia University, earning the Ph.D. in Philosophy in
1983, under the thesis direction of Arthur Danto. After three
years teaching at the University of California (Santa Barbara),
Lloyd relocated to New England, and joined the faculty of
Trinity College, Hartford, in 1987. He is presently a full
professor in the Trinity Department of Philosophy and a member
of the Neuroscience Program.
In
1989 Lloyd published Simple Minds (MIT Press), an exploration
of the foundations of cognitive science, and in 1992 he co-edited
the anthology, Minds, Brains, and Computers (Ablex Publishers).
He has also published nearly forty articles on topics including
consciousness, neuroscience, psychology, teaching methodology,
and other themes. He has received grants or fellowships from
the Danforth Foundation, Mellon Foundation, American Council
of Learned Societies, New England Consortium for Undergraduate
Science Education, and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.In 2002, he received the first "New
Perspectives in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research
Award" from the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, for
research that provides part of the scientific foundation for
Radiant Cool.
At Trinity College, Lloyd
was a co-founder and the first director of the undergraduate
Neuroscience Program, and the founding coordinator of the
Community Learning Initiative, a campus-wide service learning
program that led to the development of more than one hundred
service learning courses, representing every discipline in
the Liberal Arts curriculum. He has also received the Arthur
Hughes award for achievement in teaching.
He
currently directs a learning community at Trinity called the
Tutorial College, where forty sophomores encounter the breadth
of human learning in an intensive year-long residential program.Lloyd,
his spouse, and two daughters live in West Hartford, Connecticut
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