November 2022

Figure-Ground Shifts in Cognition: How the brain became embodied and our environment became the extended mind Brain-centrism has dominated studies of mind since secular, materialist scientific study eclipsed the classical understanding of the psyche as a metaphysical soul. We somehow flipped from thinking consciousness and intelligence was wholly a metaphysical property, to believing it was […]

The call to communicate and engage as scientists with society is getting louder and louder from, amongst others, politics, society and scientific funding agencies. The current crises – climate, inequality, Covid19 – urge for involvement and engagement of scientists. Like during the Covid19 pandemic, when science was at the heart of it all. At the