For the Casual Surfer, A Brief Bio:

Stephen E. Braude is Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

He studied philosophy and English at Oberlin College and the University of London, and in 1971 he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

After publishing a number of articles in the philosophy of language, temporal logic, and the philosophy of time, he turned his attention to the evidence of parapsychology to see whether it would provide new insights into old problems in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind. He has also made a study of dissociation and multiple personality, and he has written extensively on their connection both to classic philosophical problems and to central problems in parapsychology.

Prof. Braude is past President of the Parapsychological Association and the recipient of several grants and fellowships, including Research Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the BIAL Foundation in Lisbon. He has published more than 50 philosophical essays in such journals as Noûs, The Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Analysis, Inquiry, and Philosophia, and he has written three books: ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination (Temple University Press, 1979), The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science (Routledge, 1986; revised edition, University Press of America, 1997), and First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind (Routledge, 1991; revised edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).

Currently, he is completing a new book on the evidence for life after death.

He is also a professional pianist and composer, a prize-winning stereo photographer, and he has webbed feet.