Lewis's Pocket Case Book

Lewis's Pocket Medical Vocabulary

The human brain and spinal cord: a historical study

Through his teaching and his publications, he played a major role in the acceptance of the ECG as a clinical tool. Lewis was supported by the Medical Research Committee for work during the First World War on the disease entity initially known as "soldier's heart" and reconstructed during the war as the "effort syndrome". Following the war Lewis studied in detail the response of the skin to cold...

Listening to the World: Information and Aesthetics

George Lewis, improviser-trombonist, composer, and computer/installation artist, studied composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) School of Music, and trombone with Dean Hey. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, a Cal Arts/Alpert Award in the Arts in 1999, and numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Ar...

Qeauty and the books: a response to Lewis's quantum sleeping beauty problem

In his 2007 paper “Quantum Sleeping Beauty”, Peter Lewis poses a problem for appeals to subjective probability in the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. Lewis’s argument hinges on parallels between the traditional “sleeping beauty” problem in epistemology and his quantum variant. These two cases, Lewis argues, treat probability differently despite the fact that they share important ep...

Received Wisdom Regarding the Roles of Craving and Dopamine in Addiction: A Response to Lewis's Critique of Addiction: A Disorder of Choice.

Lewis's review of my book (2011, this issue) repeats widely shared understandings of the nature of addiction and the role that dopamine plays in the persistence of self-destructive drug use. These accounts depict addiction as a chronic relapsing disease and claim that drug-induced changes in dopamine function explain the transition from drug experimentation to compulsive drug use. In my book, I...