I have had many important mentors and friends over the years who have shaped my
intellectual and moral development, not all of them academics. First among them
are: George Thomas, my extraordinarily generous criminal law professor and friend,
without whom I would not now be a criminal defense attorney; and Arthur Fine, the
philosopher whose mentorship and support over the past 40 years permitted me to
think outside the academic box. George and Arthur will doubtless be gently critical
of this book, because they are remarkable teachers, and teachers must be critical
of their students’ work. I must also thank Sherry Colb, who taught me criminal
procedure and mental health law.
In 1985, I completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Illinois in Chicago
(then called University of Illinois Chicago Circle). My advisers made it possible for
me to complete that work on Freud as a proto-cognitive scientist, and I thank them
here: Michael Friedman, Neal Grossman, Tom Jobe, and Mark Wilson. I single out for
special thanks, primarily because of their thankless work on my little project, Mike
Friedman and Tom Jobe, with both of whom I spent endless hours in conversations
over a period of about 3 years. Tom and I talked about psychoanalysis and new
frontiers in cognitive science nearly every week, and Mike told me when I could
stop writing and rewriting. Arthur Fine was unfailingly available, although he had
moved to Northwestern University by then, and participated crucially in my oral
exam. Kathy Pyne Addelson is the philosopher from whom I learned that most good
philosophy is not done in academia, but in the street.