Monday, 30th March 2020

Boredom and Debbie Downers

“As a scholarly matter, boredom is a relatively new research area in psychology. Historically, boredom was the turf of philosophers, a more dreary, Debbie Downer posse of thinkers.”

Hey, wait a minute…

Friday, 18th October 2019

Intersectionality and Other Concepts

This is an interview with Jennifer Nash about her excellent book on intersectionality. I’m interested in the ways that concepts are created for specific purposes and then drift, or get appropriated, or get… Continue reading…

Thursday, 13th June 2019

Is Cognitive Science a “Successful Research Program”?

I think Nature needs to work on how it thinks about interdisciplinarity. A recent article (Rafael Núñez , Michael Allen, Richard Gao, Carson Miller Rigoli, Josephine Relaford-Doyle and Arturs Semenuks, “What Happened to Cognitive Science?”,… Continue reading…