Dennis Nicholson

Dennis Nicholson is the author of three books whose focus is both philosophical and psychological. The first (2025) is 'Self, Consciousness, and Being: The Transcendent Perspective', a book which argues that the transcendent self-view it describes and defends is the best design for the human self (now fully open access on this site, with an epub version also available on PsychArchives). The second (2026) is ‘Everyday Transcendence: The Way of Psychology’, a book which argues that the simple application of logic to some of the more obvious facets of human psychology offers the best path to enlightenment, transcendence, and realising our true nature (summary of case is open access on this site). The third is ‘The Hard Problem of Consciousness Resolved’, a book that argues that the hard problem of consciousness is epistemological, perspectival, and resolvable  - that if the view of the relationship of conscious experiences to brain states it outlines is true, there is no hard problem, no explanatory gap (summary of case is open access on this site). He is now retired but was previously employed at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, most recently in a joint role as Director of Research in Information Services and research group leader (CDLR) in the Computer and Information Sciences Department. He studied psychology at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1973. Dennis grew up in Dundee on the east coast of Scotland and now lives in Edinburgh.