Oscar Vilarroya studied Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. As an undergraduate, he worked as a research assistant in the Neuropsychology Section at the Hospital de la Creu i Sant Pau. After graduating, Vilarroya moved to the United Kindom, where he worked as research officer in Neuropsychology at the University of London, under the direction of Professor Christine Temple. Back in Barcelona, Vilarroya became interested in connectionist modeling and philosophy of mind. He completed his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Language at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1998. Vilarroya has authored papers in major scholarly journals such as Brain and Language, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Minds and Machines, Biology and Philosophy, and Cognitive Linguistics, and is also one of the founders of the Centre de Recerca en Ciència Cognitiva. He currently is a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and is an active disseminator of science and medicine, appearing regularly in the Spanish press and radio media.

”Provocative and imaginative, the first volume in the VIBS’ Special Series in Cognitive Science is a critique of the traditional theoretical apparatus of the discipline. In The Dissolution of Mind, neuroscientist Oscar Vilarroya undertakes the ambitious project of reformulating the traditional notions of ‘concept,’ ‘thought,’ ‘communication,’ ‘representation,’ ‘language’ and eventually ‘mind.’” in: Metapsychology, May 2003

• List of IllustrationsEditorial Foreword by Oscar VilarroyaGuest Foreword by Adolf TobeñaPrefaceAcknowledgmentsONE Alice’s PerplexitiesTWO Non-Professor O’s AphorismsTHREE Monday. On How No Superfluous Experiences ExistFOUR Tuesday. On How to Get by Without ConceptsFIVE Wednesday. On How to Live in a Virtual WorldSIX Thursday. On How Words Lost Their MeaningSEVEN Friday. On How to Communicate Without InformationEIGHT Saturday. On How Living Dissolves the MindNINE Sunday. “Tap-Tapping” the CompassBibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex