Psychology and neuroscience are concerned with the study of behavior, of internal cognitive
processes, and their neural foundations. However, most laboratory studies use constrained …

" A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work."—Nature How did we come to have minds? For
centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the …

Turkle has employed an ethnographic method, informed by her clinical interview skills, to
study how technology is impacting what it means to be human. The first piece of the trilogy …

How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily
interactions? Through the use of such" folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and …

Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended
computational activity. In Being There, Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a …

“Neural coding” is a popular metaphor in neuroscience, where objective properties of the
world are communicated to the brain in the form of spikes. Here I argue that this metaphor is …

Ethologists and others studying animal behavior in a “cognitive” spirit are in need of a
descriptive language and method that are neither anachronistically bound by behaviorist …

Tactical deception occurs when an individual is able to use an “honest” act from his normal
repertoire in a different context to mislead familiar individuals. Although primates have a …

This paper reviews some of the differences between notions of biological and robotic
autonomy, and how these differences have been reflected in discussions of embodiment …

A suitable project for the new Millenium is to radically reconfigure our image of human
rationality. Such a project is already underway, within the Cognitive Sciences, under the …