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The cybernetic tradition in cognitive science analyzes the purposive behavior of many complex systems – from sensory-guided missiles to sens...

Andrew Lister's Justice and Reciprocity (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines the place of reciprocity in egalitarianism, focusing on Joh...

Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Episte...

What happens if we turn to James Baldwin, not just for the amazing quotations and excellent photos, but as a critical theorist? What if we r...

While we tend to think of biological individuals in terms of paradigmic cases – a dog, a starfish, a bacterium – our ordinary criteria for d...

“Liberal egalitarianism” refers to a family of political views that are “liberal” in taking individual rights to be of premier importance an...

How do scientists reason when they posit unobservables to explain their observed results? For example, how did Watson and Crick reason that...

How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx...

The word “metaphysics” conjures up thoughts of very hard questions about reality and deep, perhaps unresolvable, metaphysical mysteries. But...

How should one live? What should one do? And what do these questions have to do with being a good person? In Unbecoming Persons: The Rise an...

Until recently, no one could access the detailed contents of your mind directly the way only you can. This level of protection of our mental...

Humans live in richly normatively structured social environments: there are ways of doing things that are appropriate, and we are aware of w...

Why do so many philosophers value anarchy but refuse to call themselves anarchists? Why don’t philosophers draw on the classical anarchist t...

The human mind has the curious, even mysterious, ability to generate thoughts about things with which we are not in causal contact, such as...

What are dominant narratives of mixed race identity? What are those narratives doing, in everyday life and within philosophical discourse? H...

Psychiatry’s quest for credibility as a scientific discipline led it to adopt a disorder-label orientation in which mental conditions are ca...

About 100 years ago, prominent psychologists Stanley Smith Stevens, Edward Tolman and Clark Hull spearheaded the idea of linking psychologic...

What does transphobic oppression have to do with sexism, heterosexism, and racism? How does a decolonial analysis help us understand trans o...

Between the study of specific languages and the philosophy of language lies what Ryan Nefdt calls a “Goldilocks zone” of theoretical issues...

This book is available open access here. The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (MIT Press, 2024...
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