Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

This review considers computational psychiatry from a particular viewpoint: namely, a
commitment to explaining psychopathology in terms of pathophysiology. It rests on the …

Melanie Mitchell the Davis Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Computer
Science at Portland State University has published a timely and stimulating book from an …

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language
that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and …

According to the grounded perspective, cognition emerges from the interaction of classic
cognitive processes with the modalities, the body, and the environment. Rather than being …

Over the last three decades, fruitful new lines of research and theorizing have revealed the
inadequacy of secularization and rational choice explanations of religion. This article argues …

Across four studies, two controlled lab experiments and two field studies, we tested the
efficacy of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) as an education medium for teaching the …

OUT OF THE DARK NIGHT Page 1 OUT OF THE DARK NIGHT Page 2 Page 3 OUT OF THE
DARK NIGHT ESSAYS on DECOLONIZATION ACHILLE MBEMBE Columbia University Press …

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …