Elliot Murphy
Elliot Murphy | |
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 Murphy in Texas in 2024 | |
| Born | Liverpool, U.K. |
| Education | |
| Education | University College London (MA, MSc, PhD), University of Nottingham (BA) |
| Philosophical work | |
Notable ideas | Influenced by Noam Chomsky, Karl J. Friston, David Poeppel, John Cowper Powys, John Horton Conway |
| Website | elliot-murphy |
Elliot Murphy (born 1991 in Liverpool) is an English author, neuroscientist, linguist, philosopher, literary critic, and political economist. He is a researcher at the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center. His research focuses on the neurobiology of language using intracranial recordings, and compositionality in formal systems, neural systems, and artificial systems. He is the author of Unmaking Merlin: Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature (2014), Arms in Academia: The Political Economy of the Modern UK Defence Industry (2020), and The Oscillatory Nature of Language (2020).