Honors and Awards
- Fulbright Lectureship, Turin, Italy, 1961–62
- Essay Prize, National Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1968
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1965–66
- Guggenheim Fellowship (Literary criticism), 1970
- Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
- Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
- Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1991–92
- Editorial Board, “Rethinking Theory” series, Northwestern University Press, 1992–present
- Nomination for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (The Critics Bear It Away), 1992
- PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (The Critics Bear It Away), 1993
- Berkeley Citation, 1994
- Inclusion in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002, ed. Natalie Angier (Houghton Mifflin), 2002
- Fellow, Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health, 2003–present
- Berkeley Fellow, 2005–present
- Inclusion in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005, ed. Jonathan Weiner (Houghton Mifflin), 2005
- Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award (Follies of the Wise), 2006
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