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Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Publisher’s blurb: “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...
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Microaggression and “I smell the blood of les tricoteuses”
Check out this symposium on microaggression featuring Scott Lilienfeld, Jonathan Haidt, Derald Wing Sue, and others in Perspectives on Psychological Science (all the papers are open access). While on a...
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A cleansing fire: Moral outrage alleviates guilt and buffers threats to one’s...
[we] test the counter-intuitive possibility that moral outrage at third-party transgressions is sometimes a means of reducing guilt over one’s own moral failings and restoring a moral identity —...
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
This popular book is garnering some very warm reviews — The Economist — NYT — NPR chat with author Alan Burdick alan burdickaugustineJohn M. E. McTaggartmetaphysicsMichael Dummettphilosophy of...
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Canada’s Greatest Public Intellectual
Jordan Peterson is Canada’s greatest public intellectual, not by design (he doesn’t have the self-aggrandizing tendencies of other “academics”), but has had to assume this mantle merely by being thrust...
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed the World
Listen to Michael Lewis discuss his latest book on Freakonomics Radio: “The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution” (skip to 1:50) and on Charlie Rose (much better than the former discussion); plus some...
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Shackle on Choice, Imagination and Creativity: Hayekian Foundations
The very excellent Paul Lewis has a new and freely available article here. Austrian SchoolchoiceEmergenceHayekimaginationMindPaul LewisPsychologyShacklethe sensory orderuncertainty
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Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Political Correctness in Philosophy
Sean Hermanson’s open access paper in Philosophies 2017, 2(2). feminismimplicit biasMarxismPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindpolitical correctnessPsychologyregressive leftSean Hermanson
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The Neurodiversity Case for Free Speech
Fabulous article, beautifully written. Geoffrey Miller in Quillette. Here’s the problem. America’s informal ‘speech norms’, which govern what we’re allowed to say and what we’re not, were created and...
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The Case for Psychedelics
W. Keith Campbell and Brandon Weiss in Quillette. We argue that the decision to ban therapeutic use of psychedelics was a tragic mistake. Brandon WeissconsciousnessdrugsneurosciencePhilosophy of...
View ArticlePsychologists Shouldn’t Ignore the Soul
Percy, I’d imagine, would have found much resonance in this article. David H. RosmarinGodPsychologyReligion & SpiritualitySigmund FreudsoulWalker Percy
View ArticleForm and Function in Human Song
Here’s a recent open access paper in Current Biology along with a journalistic write-up in The Harvard Gazette. The present research provides evidence for the existence of recurrent, perceptible...
View ArticleThe Active Inference Approach to Ecological Perception
New article by Andy Clark et al. in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied...
View ArticleThe Journal of Mind and Behavior
Volume 38, Numbers 3 and 4, Summer and Autumn 2017 now available. Notable contributions, at least for me, are McCarroll’s review of Rowlands and Trueb’s review of Miller. Cognitive sciencejournal of...
View ArticleHayek and Hempel on the Nature, Role, and Limitations of Science
A chapter from this just published book. carl hempelFriedrich HayekPhilosophy of sciencePsychologyScientism
View ArticleGigerenzer papers
The most distinguished Gerd Gigerenzer has very kindly alerted me to some of his most recent writings. Roger and I were honoured to have Gerd participate in our co-edited Minds, Models and Milieux:...
View ArticleInnate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
Published today — this should get some regressive knickers in a twist. In the past century, the tradition of Freudian psychology popularized the idea that our psychological dispositions could be traced...
View ArticleThe Psychology of Chess
Fernand Gobet has a new book out that, as a (very rusty) chess player, has piqued my interest. As a cognitive scientist and a highly skilled player himself, there are few (if any) better placed than...
View ArticleHarris in conversation with Kahneman
The Harris-Kahneman chat is here. Below is my entry for Kahneman in Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics. Amos TverskyBehavioral economicsCognitive...
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