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Dylan Evans

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http://www.goodreads.com/dylanevans

born

September 29, 1966 in Bristol, The United Kingdom

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male

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http://www.dylan.org.uk

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Nonfiction, Science, Business & Investing

influences

Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, John von Neumann

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May 2012

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Dylan Evans is the founder of Projection Point, the global leader in risk intelligence solutions. He has written several popular science books, including Risk Intelligence: How to Live with Uncertainty (2012), Emotion: The Science of Sentiment (2001) and Placebo: The Belief Effect (2003), and in 2001 he was voted one of the twenty best young writers in Britain by the Independent on Sunday. He received a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics in 2000, and has held academic appointments at King's College London, the University of Bath, the University of the West of England, and University College Cork, and the American University of Beirut.

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Breaking in and sneaking over: why placehacking is risk intelligent

Would you illegally climb the Shard, Europe’s tallest building, currently unfinished, just for fun? Maybe that’s not your idea of amusement. But what if you were itching to leap over a walkway, sneak past the security guard, sprint up the … Continue reading → read more »

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Books by Dylan Evans

Average rating: 3.67 · 214 ratings · 27 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans (Goodreads Author), Oscar Zarate (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Emotion: The Science of Sentiment 3.48 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	My rating:
	An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis 3.53 avg rating — 64 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Introducing Evolution, New Edition (Introducing by Dylan Evans (Goodreads Author), Howard Selina, Richard Appignanesi (Editor) 3.39 avg rating — 36 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Risk Intelligence: How to Live with Uncertainty 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings	My rating:
	Placebo: Mind Over Matter in Modern Medicine 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Emotion, Evolution and Rationality 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Diccionario Introductorio de Psicoanalisis Lacaniano = Looking Awry by Dylon Evans, Dylan Evans (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997	My rating:

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