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Dylan Evans is the author of several popular science books, including Emotion: The Science of Sentiment and Placebo: The Belief Effect. After receiving his PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics, he did research in philosophy and robotics at King’s College London and the University of Bath before moving the University of the West of England (UWE) where he was Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Autonomous Systems. He left UWE in July 2006 to start the Utopia Experiment.
He writes regularly for the Guardian and has made frequent appearances on radio and television, and gives numerous talks at festivals of science and literature. In 2001 he was voted one of the twenty best young writers in Britain by the Independent on Sunday, and was once described by the Guardian as ‘Alain de Botton in a lab coat’. He has also done occasional performances as a DJ at literary events such as the Hay Festival and the Orange Prize.
