In search of our highest capacities, cognitive scientists aim to explain things like
mathematics, language, and planning (and while explaining them, they often imagine …

Promoted on the back cover as a “'dialectic of enlightenment'for the age of globalization,”
Scott Lash and Celia Lury's Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things purports to …

Studies of mechanisms of adaptive behavior generally focus on neurons and circuits. But
adaptive behavior also depends on interactions among the nervous system, body and …

It has been about a century and half since the ideas that we now associate with
emergentism began taking shape. 1 At the core of these ideas was the thought that as …

" Core disgust" is a food related emotion that is rooted in evolution but is also a cultural
product. Seven categories of disgust elicitors have been observed in an American sample …

How might one account for the organization in behavior without attributing it to an internal
control structure? The present article develops a theoretical framework called behavioral …

This paper proposes a basic revision of the understanding of teleology in biological
sciences. Since Kant, it has become customary to view purposiveness in organisms as a …

This book searches for the sources and means for a disciplined practical approach to
exploring human experience. The spirit of this book is" pragmatic" and relies on a Husserlian …

The last ten years have seen an increasing interest, within cognitive science, in issues
concerning the physical body, the local environment, and the complex interplay between …

Dynamical ideas are beginning to have a major impact on cognitive science, from
foundational debates to daily practice. In this article, I review three contrasting examples of …