After half a century of cognitive revolution we remain far from agreement about what
cognition is and what cognition does. It was once thought that these questions could wait …

Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than
theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an …

In this article we argue that self-deception evolved to facilitate interpersonal deception by
allowing people to avoid the cues to conscious deception that might reveal deceptive intent …

When scholars extend their models and hypotheses to encompass additional cases, they
commonly need to adapt their analytic categories to fit the new contexts. Giovanni Sartori's …

Jerry A. Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis,
which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind …

First published in 1995. When did psychology become a distinct discipline? What links the
continental and analytic traditions in philosophy? Answers to both questions are found in …

Reflection without Rules offers a comprehensive, pointed exploration of the methodological
tradition in economics and the breakdown of the received view within the philosophy of …

First Published in 2004. Scientism is the belief that science, especially natural science, is the
most valuable part of our culture. Although not confined to philosophers, it is from Bacon and …

Human decision-making shows systematic simplifications and deviations from the tenets of
rationality ('heuristics') that may lead to suboptimal decisional outcomes ('cognitive biases') …

Decades of findings in psychology suggest that human belief is thoroughly irrational. At best,
beliefs might be formed by heuristic processes that predictably lead to suboptimal outcomes …