Becko Copenhaver Washington University, St. Louis “We are, all of us, potential perceptual experts.” (Dustin Stokes, Thinking and Perceiving, p. 234) I’m grateful to discuss Dustin’s Thinking and Perceiving. I agree with him so much, about so much, that I hope our points of departure will be revealing. For example, …
Dustin Stokes-University of Utah dustin.stokes[@]utah.edu The broad, probably overly ambitious, agenda of the book is to shift scientific and philosophical theories of perception away from one current orthodoxy. The orthodoxy I have in mind is modularity. The alternative I favor is malleability. Anyone familiar with relevant literature knows that the …
We are thrilled to be hosting a symposium this week on Dustin Stokes’ new book, Thinking and Perceiving. We have three fantastic commentators, Becko Copenhaver, Jonna Vance, and John Zeimbekis. Dustin will provide an intro today, then we will have one commentary per day, followed by a response from Dustin …
I am not a historian. This thought did not occur to me when I set out three years ago to write a book about my field of computational neuroscience, but it has occurred to me many times since. I knew I wanted the book be more than just be a …
Thank you to Nick and his co-editors for inviting us to contribute to this symposium on writing books for general audiences! We have both written several books, and one of us – Weatherall – has written two other books for general audiences. But in this post, we are going to …
Unexpectedly, the eyeball turned out to be the problem. There I was, writing a book about the brain, a manuscript that became The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds, and I was stuck. The big picture was clear in my mind: I wanted to tell the …
Have you ever wondered what it is like to write a cognitive science book for a general audience? This week we find out from the authors of three books. Mark Humphries, The Spike: A Journey Through The Brain in 2.1 Seconds (Princeton, 2021) Grace Lindsay, Models of the Mind: How …
