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Here are the results, organised by rough and ready categories:. Recent Psychology: 24. ... It’s not for me to say that this was the influence of this very blog percolating into the psychology world.

Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature rewrites the story of early modern epistemology by examining the intervention of the ‘literary’ in a wider conversation about the process, ethics and psychology ... The essays in this volume

about and wrote about the brain's image-making function. ... that natural philosophers and physicians of the Renaissance thought about and wrote about the function of the brain that is responsible for creating images.

On the other hand, psychology is often talking about things that regular people recognise in their everyday experience, whereas quantum physics isn’t, and that should perhaps be reflected in its ... narrow), and worried about the way that some popular

24). Knapp then goes on to note how uncertainty in metaphysics and natural philosophy, the realms ‘in which ideas about the nature of materiality and immateriality had to be directly reconciled ... For students it would be rather hard work and probably

This one announces a few changes ahead, though. I wrote four posts about the early 16th-century poet John Skelton, a maverick talent who seems to me to be revealed interestingly ... The year was bookended by posts about the ways that generalised

what is proper to each of its elements save as a vector of further agglomeration or dispersion, is indifferent to their differences), begs important questions about the ontology of the figure ... As is fitting for a book about the swerve, The Seeds of

ii) MANIPULATING THE BIASES! I wrote a cheery account of reading Michael Lewis’s book about the psychology pioneers Kahneman and Tversky. ... sorry about the undergrads…. :0).

One of the things they are commonly thought to know about is psychology (motives, emotions, etc.).. ... ABOUT. While this is a mostly innocent preposition that needn’t detain us long, the idea of ‘aboutness’ isn’t inert.

Especially about popular media reception of psychology, where they leap to tell us where love happens in the brain, and so on. ... To receive updates about new posts. Enter your email address:. Delivered by.

nevertheless conveys the truth about the defendant (that he is a thief, for example). ... King Lear is not about the psychology of the aging brain, nor is it a true story, and yet it may have truth to tell about the psychology of the aging

piece listed above. It’s part of Psychology’s replication boom, which I have written about a bit here. ... Anyway, the thing about the replication boom is that it’s a failed replication boom.

In my last post I tried out a way of thinking about the replication crisis in psychology from a literary critic’s perspective. ... And then today I read about this latest failed attempt to reproduce a famous finding in social psychology.

I think The Voices Within is a triumph. It ranges from sharp-edged clinical issues (people who hear voices that are distracting, disturbing, or destructive) to adventurous thinking about the role ... In one of his guises he is the Principal Investigator

This has something in common with an earlier post about the use of the word ‘fear’? ... It’s about the terms used in psychology, and the care required to understand the question before heading for an answer.

So I’ve been reading a book. It is made up of dozens of stories about the boundary between the animal and human, and about the processes of change over time, ... Well, no, it’s Michael Tye’s book about animal psychology, with its cool title.

This is all about the ‘naive utility calculus’. The idea is that from a young age our social thinking is based on an assumption that everyone is just trying to maximise ... Overall they wonder how the simplifications that result from common-sense

Typically I like to describe the argument of a recent psychology article, to offer (perhaps) some sort of critical generalist thoughts about what I think is interesting or problematic, and then ... Could we maybe think about the evolution of certain

In my last post I tried out a way of thinking about the replication crisis in psychology from a literary critic’s perspective. ... And then today I read about this latest failed attempt to reproduce a famous finding in social psychology.

narrow), and worried about the way that some popular psychology books attract the attention of general readers by (perhaps) overstating the real-life relevance of experimental findings. ... byThis is the second of two posts gathering a few thoughts about