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Extended animal cognition
According to the extended cognition thesis, an agent’s cognitive system can sometimes include extracerebral components amongst its physical...
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Motivational pessimism and motivated cognition
I introduce and discuss an underappreciated form of motivated cognition: motivational pessimism, which involves the biasing of beliefs for the sake...
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Rejecting the extended cognition moral narrative: a critique of two normative arguments for extended cognition
Given the explanatory stalemate between ‘embedded’ (EMB) and ‘extended’ (EXT) cognition, various authors have proposed normative and moral arguments...
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Minimal model explanations of cognition
Active materials are self-propelled non-living entities which, in some circumstances, exhibit a number of cognitively interesting behaviors such as...
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Complementarity and Quantum Cognition
The idea of complementarity is one of the key concepts of quantum mechanics. Yet, the idea was originally developed in William James’ psychology of...
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What is cognitive about ‘plant cognition’?
There is growing evidence that plants possess abilities associated with cognition, such as decision-making, anticipation and learning. And yet, the...
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Intentionality, pointing, and early symbolic cognition
Concepts such as “symbolism” and “symbolic cognition” often remain unspecified in discussions the symbolic capacities of earlier hominins. In this...
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HoloFoldit and Hologrammatically Extended Cognition
How does the integration of mixed reality devices into our cognitive practices impact the mind from a metaphysical and epistemological perspective?...
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Between social cognition and material engagement: the cooperative body hypothesis
In recent years, social cognition approaches to human evolution and Material Engagement Theory have offered new theoretical resources to advance our...
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Afactivism about understanding cognition
Here, I take alethic views of understanding to be all views that hold that whether an explanation is true or false matters for whether that...
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How can embodied cognition naturalize bounded rationality?
The paper discusses how research on embodied cognition in cognitive science can contribute to the naturalization of rationality. The investigation...
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Expanding Cognition: The Plasticity of Thought
This chapter surveys elements of non-human cognition to explore ways to think across the boundary that is usually asserted between living and...
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Entropy, prediction and the cultural ecosystem of human cognition
Major proponents of both Distributed Cognition and Predictive Processing have argued that the two theoretical frameworks are strongly compatible. An...
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Précis of Philosophy, Literature and Understanding: On Reading and Cognition
This précis gives an overview of my book Philosophy, Literature, and Understanding: On Reading and Cognition which is the subject of a book symposium...
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Why studying plant cognition is valuable, even if plants aren’t cognitive
Philosophers and scientists propose the idea that plants are cognitive, which has been met with criticisms. These criticisms focus on the fact that...
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Epistemological issues in neurodivergence and atypical cognition: introduction
This is the introduction of the Synthese Topical Collection Epistemological Issues in Neurodivergence and Atypical Cognition written by the guest...
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Situated Cognition Research Methodological Foundations
This volume assembles supporters and critics of situated cognition research to evaluate the intricacies, prerequisites, possibilities, and scope of a...
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Neuroprosthetics, Extended Cognition, and the Problem of Ownership
Neurotechnologies are rapidly advancing in the past few years, such that neural prostheses and brain-computer interfaces are no longer things that...
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Enactive Cognition in Place Sense-Making as the Development of Ecological Norms
This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive...
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Cognition and the Passions
Hobbes viewed people as just matter in motion and developed a thoroughly materialistic account of human psychology. In the first part of this chapter...