Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to processing
mechanisms of low computational expense. Such a tendency leads to suboptimal outcomes …

Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective
sciences have proliferated rather than converged due to differing assumptions about what …

Recent clinical trials show that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin can be given safely
in controlled conditions, and can cause lasting psychological benefits with one or two …

What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off
from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays, Tim Ingold sets out to …

Just as metacognition is cognition about cognition, and a metatheory is a theory about
theories, the meta-problem is a problem about a problem. The initial problem is the hard …

Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology,
archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring …

Psychiatry is enormously complex. One of its main difficulties is to articulate the relationship
between the wide assortment of factors that may cause or contribute to psychiatric disorders …

A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and
philosophy of mind to issues in affective science. In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti …

A book that promotes the thesis that basic forms of mentality—intentionally directed
cognition and perceptual experience—are best understood as embodied yet contentless …

Learning Theory and Online Technologies offers a powerful overview of the current state of
online learning, the foundations of its historical roots and growth, and a framework for …