Why It Wasn’t a Great Victory After All

A victory for all mankind

Why not use it all?

One of the prominent features of the recent Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) in New Orleans, Louisiana, was the debate on a hypothetical motion to have the results of mechanistic toxicity studies supersede ambiguous epidemiological data in chemical risk assessments for humans. The audience was polled prior to the debate, but the results have little to say about the merits of th...

South Africa’s Great Transition: Why It Matters

Few regions of the world struggle with the question of relevance and marginalization more often than Sub-Saharan Africa. Like the continent itself,

Extensive enactivism: why keep it all in?

Radical enactive and embodied approaches to cognitive science oppose the received view in the sciences of the mind in denying that cognition fundamentally involves contentful mental representation. This paper argues that the fate of representationalism in cognitive science matters significantly to how best to understand the extent of cognition. It seeks to establish that any move away from repr...

"Why not use it all?" Another view.

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