Cordelia Fine
Cordelia Fine (* 1975 in Toronto , Canada ) is a Canadian-British science author, researcher and journalist. She is best known for two books on neuroscience : A mind of its own and Delusions of Gender .
Life
Fine, who was born in Canada, grew up in the United States and Edinburgh as the child of British children's author Anne Fine and American philosophy professor Kit Fine . Her sister is psychology professor Ione Fine . She is the mother of two sons.
academic career
1995 joined the Fine Bachelor of Arts in experimental psychology of Oxford University with honors. A year later she received a Masters of Philosophy in criminology from Cambridge University . In 2001, Fine received his PhD in Psychology from the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London . She is a Research Associate at the Center for Value, Agency & Ethics at Macquarie University , Australia, and an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne , Australia.
Awards
- 2017: Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize for Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds
Fonts
- Do you know what your brain thinks ?: how reality is distorted in our upstairs room ... and why . English original A mind of its own . WW Norton & Company, London 2006. German translation: Elsevier, Spektrum, Akad. Verl., Heidelberg / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8274-1832-6 .
- The gender lie: the power of prejudice over men and women . English Original: Delusions of Gender . WW Norton & Company, London 2010. German translation: Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-94735-9 .
Web links
- Cordelia Fine official website
- Literature by and about Cordelia Fine in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Cordelia Fine at perlentaucher.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fine, Cordelia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian science writer, researcher and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |