Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of
multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well‐known example of birdsong, other …

Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience shed light on the existence of a common neural
mechanism that could account for action and intention to understand abilities in humans and …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If
reason is so useful, why didn't it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why …

" Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be
so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since …

An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—
can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving …

" A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work."—Nature How did we come to have minds? For
centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the …

In this paper we outline a framework for the study of the mechanisms involved in the
engagement of human agents with cultural affordances. Our aim is to better understand how …

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

In his 1836 essay “Maelzel's Chess Player” Edgar Allan Poe attempted to expose the hoax
of a machine which, according to its owner, Johann Mälzel, could play chess against a …