Gonzalo Munevar

My blogs

About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Professor
Location Southfield, Michigan, United States
Introduction I have a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from the University of California at Berkeley. I have published several books in that area, in English and Spanish. I have been publishing articles about conceptual issues in space exploration for many years. I have also published poetry and fiction, including a novel (The Master of Fate). I presently teach at Lawrence Technological University in Michigan. Most of my research now is in neuroscience, particularly in doing brain-scanning experiments about the self (fMRI) and consciousness.
Interests space exploration, philosophy of science, neuroscience, fiction
Favorite Movies The Graduate, 400 Blows, The Thin Man, North by Northwest, Straw Dogs, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, La Belle Epoque, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, As Good as it Gets, Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso, Star Trek 2, Hud, Walkabout, The Silence of the Lambs, Raging Bull, Pelle the Conqueror, Awakenings, Agora, As It Is in Heaven
Favorite Music Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Tschaikovsvky's Piano Concerto #1, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, Bizet's Carmen
Favorite Books Cervantes' Don Quixote, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Love in the Time of Cholera, Kafka's Metamorphosis, Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia and the Scrptwriter, and Captain Pantoja, Amado's Gabriela, Borges' Ficciones, Malamud's The Assistant, Camus' The Stranger, Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Feyerabend's Against Method, Churchland's The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul, Mill's On Liberty, Plato's Republic, Galileo's Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.