Cognitive abilities cannot be measured directly. What we can measure is individual variation
in task performance. In this paper, we first make the case for why we should be interested in …

Learning is commonplace in organisms such as ourselves and even in organisms as far
distant as the bee and the octopus. Such learning is implemented by brains, or neuronal …

It has been claimed that the ability to recall personal past events is uniquely human. We
review recent evidence that great apes can remember specific events for long periods of …

When computers started to become a dominant part of technology around the 1950s,
fundamental questions about reliable designs and robustness were of great relevance. Their …

Many critical aspects of contemporary human cognitive functionality (eg, reading, fixing a
car) evolved historically in a time frame that biological natural selection cannot account for …

I argue that bounded agents face a systematic accuracy–coherence tradeoff in cognition.
Agents must choose whether to structure their cognition in ways likely to promote coherence …

Most authors who work with moral status automatically dismiss the possibility that plants are
the kinds of entities that have moral status. This dismissal coheres with our intuitions about …

We use this first issue to interweave what we consider to be two of the greatest challenges
facing public affairs education; the necessary innovations and adaptations higher education …

Comparative cognition is the study of cognition across the tree of life. Nonhuman animals
(hereafter animals) display a broad and often surprising range of cognitive abilities. Kea (a …

Natural selection imply that any organisms including human being will evolve to improve its
fitness advantage and the selected genotype or phenotype in equilibrium state will not vary …