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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Hunter‐gatherers faced the survival threat of confusing edible mushrooms with their poisonous twins, imposing selection pressure on those who failed to detect subtle visual differences. Grounded in the ancestral priorities framework, which posits that the human mind is adapted to handle prehistoric challenges, we investigated whether humans ...
Roman Abel
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The Rest is Science: What Does Phenomenology Tell Us About Cognition?
, 2014 First paragraph: Let me put up my hand straight away: I am a naturalist about cognition. What does this mean? First things first: I take ‘cognition’ to be a catch-all term encompassing the various states and processes that we typically ...
Wheeler, Michael
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Anxiety is Associated With Biases in Task Generalization
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Adaptive behavior depends on generalizing learned task structures to novel situations. While anxiety is known to distort stimulus‐based threat generalization, its effects on task generalization—the transfer of learned action−outcome structures to new planning contexts—remain poorly understood.
Hadas Schiff, Paul B. Sharp
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Metascience and the Philosophy of Science
I doubt that I am the only speaker who was attracted to this meeting, at least in part, because it promises to bring two groups into dialogue who should be speaking to one another, but who largely have not: scholars working on metascience or quantitative
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Limits to Language Prediction: Findings From Diverse Populations
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract For a model in cognitive science to adequately explain cognitive processes across different populations, empirical findings from diverse participant groups are essential. This paper selectively reviews studies that investigated prediction in different populations and discusses what they reveal about the mechanisms and role of language ...
Aine Ito
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When Science Becomes Law: Proficiency, Deficiency, and the Regulation of Literacy
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 1, January/February/March 2027.This graphic depicts how the “Science of Reading” functions as a legitimizing discourse in the translation of literacy research into policy. As literacy policy is enacted through assessments, interventions, retention policies, and educator evaluation systems, literacy becomes increasingly organized through categories of proficiency and deficiency ...
CoCo Massengale
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The Philosophy of Computer Science
, 2017 The philosophy of computer science is concerned with those ontological, methodological, and ethical issues that arise from within the academic discipline of computer science as well as from the practice of software development.
Turner, Raymond, ANGIUS, Nicola
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Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account
Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 6, Page 2691-2715, December 2026.ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen +5 more
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Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives
Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 6, Page 2839-2873, December 2026.ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón +38 more
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