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The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (1999) (844)
Explanation and Cognition (2000) (341)
The Cambridge handbook of situated cognition (2008) (326)
Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences - Cognition (2004) (252)
How to situate cognition: Letting nature take its course (2009) (240)
A conceptual and empirical framework for the social distribution of cognition: The case of memory (2008) (226)
Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences (2004) (190)
When Traditional Essentialism Fails: Biological Natural Kinds (2007) (169)
Boundaries of the Mind (2004) (167)
Collective memory, group minds, and the extended mind thesis (2005) (155)
The Shadows and Shallows of Explanation (1998) (148)
Philosophy of psychology (2005) (136)
Realism, Essence, and Kind: Resuscitating Species Essentialism? (1999) (128)
Embodied cognition. (2013) (121)
Genes and the Agents of Life: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences Biology (2004) (110)
I, Primate (2002) (97)
Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Individualism and the Science of the Mind (1997) (65)
Two Views of Realization (2001) (64)
Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, 7th Edition: (1980) (60)
Research and Development Statistics (1993) (59)
The Biological Notion of Individual (2007) (56)
Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds (1995) (51)
Group-Level Cognition (2001) (49)
The Mind Beyond Itself (2000) (47)
Physicalism: The Philosophical Foundations (1996) (44)
The Drink You Have When You’re Not Having a Drink (2008) (42)
Meaning-Making and the Mind of the Externalist (2006) (38)
Pluralism, Entwinement, and the Levels of Selection (2003) (29)
INTENTIONALITY AND PHENOMENOLOGY (2003) (29)
Causal Depth, Theoretical Appropriateness, and Individualism in Psychology (1994) (28)
Cohesion, gene flow, and the nature of species (2010) (27)
Ten questions concerning extended cognition (2014) (27)
Pictorial art and vision (1999) (26)
Realization: Metaphysical and scientific perspectives (2007) (25)
Extended Mind and Identity (2014) (25)
The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition: How to Situate Cognition (2008) (24)
Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology (2010) (23)
The primal path to kinship: a critical review of Bernard Chapais, Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society (2010) (22)
Group-level Cognizing, Collaborative Remembering, and Individuals (2018) (22)
Mid-level vision (1999) (22)
Locke's Primary Qualities (2002) (22)
The Eugenic Mind Project (2017) (22)
The Concept Concept: The Wayward Path of Cognitive Science (2000) (21)
Situated Cognition: Letting Nature Take its Course (2006) (21)
Kinship Past, Kinship Present: Bio-Essentialism in the Study of Kinship (2016) (18)
Top-down processing in vision (1999) (18)
Thinking about relations: Strathern, Sahlins, and Locke on anthropological knowledge (2016) (16)
Synopsis of Otolaryngology (1980) (15)
Some Problems for "Alternative Individualism" (2000) (15)
A Puzzle About Material Constitution and How to Solve It: Enriching Constitution Views in Metaphysics (2007) (15)
What Computations (Still, Still) Can't Do: Jerry Fodor on Computation and Modularity (2004) (14)
The Sound of Music: Externalist Style (2016) (14)
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) (13)
What Is an Organism? (1864) (12)
Life's Early Years (2001) (11)
Eugenics and Disability (2016) (11)
Optical Page Reading Devices (1966) (11)
Test Cases, Resolvability, and Group Selection: A Critical Examination of the Myxoma Case* (2004) (10)
Computer Retrieval of Case Law (1962) (10)
Individualism, causal powers, and explanation (1992) (10)
The Individual in Biology and Psychology (1997) (9)
Expanding Consciousness (2021) (9)
The British trade boards system (1924) (9)
Recent Work in Individualism in the Social, Behavioral and Biological Sciences (2004) (9)
The Transitivity of Material Constitution (2009) (8)
The postulates of game theory (1972) (8)
Character above all : ten presidents from FDR to George Bush (1997) (8)
PERSONS, SOCIAL AGENCY, AND CONSTITUTION (2005) (8)
Well-being, Disability, and Choosing Children (2018) (8)
Eugenics Undefended (2019) (7)
Implicit vs. explicit memory (1999) (7)
SOCIAL REALITY AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTS: SOCIALITY WITHIN AND WITHOUT INTENTIONALITY (2007) (7)
The Role of Oral History in Surviving a Eugenic Past (2015) (7)
The Cognitive Sciences: A comment on 6 reviews of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (2001) (6)
Causality in the Mind: Estimating Contextual and Conjunctive Causal Power (2006) (6)
Sorts of people (2014) (6)
Material Constitution and the Many-Many Problem (2008) (6)
The New Inquisition (1986) (6)
World Gone Wrong (2007) (6)
Eugenics Never Went Away (2018) (5)
Genes and the Agents of Life: Notes (2004) (5)
Dehumanization, Disability, and Eugenics (2021) (5)
Promiscuous Realism (1996) (4)
Realization: Metaphysics, Mind, and Science (2004) (4)
Incest, Incest Avoidance, and Attachment: Revisiting the Westermarck Effect (2019) (4)
Neuropolitics: The Sociobiology of Human Metamorphosis (1977) (4)
Power And The Presidency (2007) (4)
Towards the Nuclear Sublime: Representations of Technological Vastness in Postmodern American Poetry (1989) (4)
Collective Intentionality in Non-human Animals (2017) (4)
Pointers, codes, and embodiment (1997) (3)
Waking in Seoul (1988) (3)
Eugenic Thinking (2018) (3)
Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography (1999) (3)
Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada View project The Eugenic Mind Project View project (2005) (3)
Black Ghetto Family in Therapy: A Laboratory Experience (1971) (3)
Contemporary Forms of Eugenics (2017) (3)
Kinmaking, progeneration, and ethnography. (2021) (2)
Head and Neck Anatomy Review (1980) (2)
Critical Review of Philip Kitcher's In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology. Oxford University Press, 2003. (2004) (2)
LEVELS OF SELECTION (2007) (2)
From small beginnings: to build an anti-eugenic future (2022) (2)
Seeing, Doing, and Knowing: A Philosophical Theory of Sense Perception (review) (2006) (2)
Administrative Evaluation: A Comprehensive Approach. (1981) (2)
Discovery of the Cosmic Background Radiation (1997) (2)
Seeing Shelley Plain (2001) (1)
Boundaries of the Mind: Group Minds in Historical Perspective (2004) (1)
Playboy's book of forbidden words : a liberated dictionary of improper English, containing over 700 uninhibited definitions of erotic and scatological terms (1972) (1)
Genes and the Agents of Life: Specious Individuals (2004) (1)
Modern Book Collecting (1980) (1)
Readings on the changing family (1973) (1)
Rethinking Incest Avoidance: Beyond the Disciplinary Groove of Culture-First Views (2020) (1)
On the Realization of Mental Properties: Constitution, Determination, and Width (1996) (1)
The Golden Apple (1975) (1)
Primary and Secondary Qualities (2015) (1)
Sex and Drugs (1973) (1)
Roles of science in eugenics (2014) (1)
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology (2022) (1)
AGAINST A PRIORI ARGUMENTS FOR INDIVIDUALISM (1993) (1)
The Ontological Status of Conspiracy Theory (2018) (1)
Points: Is your enema really necessary? (1981) (1)
Review of Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind (2010) (1)
PAR volume 82 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (1981) (1)
Flowing Genes and Cohesive Species (2006) (1)
Does Britain need more engineers (1981) (1)
Attitudes toward Sex, Modern (1961) (1)
The Transitivity of Constitution (2006) (0)
Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Introduction: What is individualism in psychology? (1995) (0)
Joseph LaPorte , Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change . Reviewed by (2004) (0)
Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Conclusion: Cartesian psychology and the science of the mind (1995) (0)
Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Preface (1995) (0)
How to Think with the Global South (2022) (0)
Exploring the Tripartite View (2004) (0)
An a priori argument: the argument from causal powers (1995) (0)
PAR volume 97 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (1988) (0)
Boundaries of the Mind: Nativism on My Mind (2004) (0)
Boundaries of the Mind: Metaphysics, Mind, and Science: Two Views of Realization (2004) (0)
Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics: Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond (2020) (0)
[Review of the book Reconstructing the Cognitive World, by Mheeler] (2006) (0)
[Review of the book Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change, by JaPorte] (2004) (0)
Eugenics and Philosophy (2017) (0)
Boundaries of the Mind: The Group Mind Hypothesis in Contemporary Biology and Social Science (2004) (0)
Extended review of ‘Fighting for the Good Cause’: Reflections on Francis Galton’s Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology (American Philosophical Society) (2002) (0)
Boundaries of the Mind: The Embedded Mind and Cognition (2004) (0)
The causal depth and theoretical appropriateness of wide psychology (1995) (0)
Eugenics offended (2021) (0)
Eugenics Offended Dec 2021 (2021) (0)
Explaining Explanation: introduction (2000) (0)
Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Individualistic visions of psychology: prospects and problems (1995) (0)
A Puzzle About Constitution: Cohesive Physical Mereology and the Relational / Intrinsic Constraint (2004) (0)
Individualism: Philosophical Foundations (2004) (0)
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology (2022) (0)
Eugenics in Philosophy (2017) (0)
Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Methodological arguments (1995) (0)
Thinking about Biological Agents (2004) (0)
[Review of the book The Act of Thinking, by Delser] (2005) (0)
Critical Notice (2006) (0)
Michael Wheeler , Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step . Reviewed by (2006) (0)
DOI 10.1007/s10339-005-0012-z REVIEW (2005) (0)
Folk Experience and the Enthusiasm of Philosophers (2015) (0)
Revisiting the Westermarck Effect (2019) (0)
Explaining Incest Avoidance: Explorations in the Fragile Sciences (2019) (0)
Borders, Exiles, Diasporas (review) (2001) (0)
Boundaries of the Mind: Representation, Computation, and Cognitive Science (2004) (0)
Review of John Dupre, Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology, Oxford, 2012, 350 pp (2012) (0)
On Arguments Over the Tree of Life (2009) (0)
Group Cognition and Memory (2006) (0)
Bioknowledge with Burian (2007) (0)
Boundaries of the Mind: Intentionality and Phenomenology (2004) (0)
What Should a Realist Say About Moral Motivation (1992) (0)
The Sexual Domestication of the Four-Brained Biped (2019) (0)
The place of folk psychology: computationalism, individualism, and narrow content (1995) (0)
Externalism and Internalism in the Philosophy of Mind (2017) (0)
Arguing about Group Selection: The Myxoma Case (2004) (0)
Review of The Act of Thinking: Derek Melser, The Act of Thinking, MIT Press, 2004, 304pp, $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 0262134462. (2005) (0)
The Universe Next Door (1979) (0)
Kinship Unbound: Performativism, Bioessentialism, and the Ethnographic Record (2019) (0)
Individuals and Natural Selection (1999) (0)
Hot Button Topics in Schools and Beyond (2019) (0)
Eugenics as wrongful: encyclopedia entry (2014) (0)
Extended artistic appreciation (2013) (0)
Nelson Algren: A Descriptive Bibliography , by Matthew J. Bruccoli, with the assistance of Judith Baughman (1986) (0)
Eugenics Undefended (2019) (0)
Making sense of mental causation (1995) (0)
Science, role of: encyclopedia entry (2014) (0)
Explanation and Cognition: Foreword (1998) (0)
[Review of of the book Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology, by Jupre] (2012) (0)
Group-Level Memory: What it is (and isn’t), and Why it Matters to the Biological and Social Sciences (2004) (0)
Eugenic traits: encyclopedia entry (2014) (0)
Eugenics, Kinship, and Philosophy in Unfamiliar Places (2019) (0)
Editor's Note: Plaint du Jour (2016) (0)
Pluralism, Entwinement, and the Agents of Selection (2004) (0)
Reality Is What You Can Get Away With (1992) (0)
Locke on Primary Qualities: Transdictive Inference, Solidity, and Corpuscularianism (2001) (0)
Survivorship for the Subhuman: Testimony, Narrative and Memory in the Context of Canadian Eugenics (2012) (0)
Individuals and the Mental: Extended Cognition, Collective Minds, and other Curiosities in the Fragile Sciences (2012) (0)
The Staying Power of Eugenics (2018) (0)
Boundaries of the Mind: Notes (2004) (0)
Homicide Investigation Techniques (1962) (0)
The Feeling of Eugenics (2018) (0)
Review of Samir Okasha, Agents and Goals in Evolution (2019) (0)
101.15 An elementary proof that not all principal ideal domains are Euclidean domains (2017) (0)
Really Extending the Mind: invited commentary (2006) (0)
Why Explanations of Behaviour Need Not Be Individualistic (1992) (0)
Richard Wilbur and "Candide" (1995) (0)
Bio Low Tech: Persons, Marked Human Variation, and the Sub-Human (2012) (0)
Postmodern X: Honolulu Traces (2012) (0)
Is Kinship an Ethnocentric Projection from the West to the Rest (2009) (0)
Normalcy and Natural Variation in Humans and Other Animals (2007) (0)
The weird and wonderful world of octonions (2004) (0)
American Philosophical Quarterly | Vol. 53 No. 2 | ARTICLE: Luke Kersten and Robert A. Wilson: The Sound of Music: Externalist Style | PDF Document (2016) (0)
WHEN DOES A PERSON BEGIN ? (2005) (0)
Acknowledgments (2019) (0)
Individualism and Casual Powers (1991) (0)
The Eugenic Mind (2011) (0)
Institute on Homicide Investigation Techniques (1961) (0)
Eugenics, Psychology, and the Mind (2019) (0)
Sociobiology: encyclopedia entry (2014) (0)
Bioknowledge with Burian: Extended review of Richard Burian, The Epistemology of Development, Evolution, and Genetics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) (2007) (0)
Life Saving vs Population Explosion (1966) (0)
Left and Right: A Non-Euclidean Perspective (2018) (0)
Discussion round table contribution on Genes and the Agents of Life (2006) (0)
Normalcy and Sociality (2008) (0)
Ugly Laws: encyclopedia entry (2015) (0)
Henry David Thoreau: What Manner of Man? (review) (2010) (0)
Putting Mindful Sociality to Work: The Case of Kinship (2017) (0)
Groups as Agents of Selection (2004) (0)
Two Kinds of Folk Experience and the Enthusiasm of Philosophers (2013) (0)
Living Archives: Teaching the History of Eugenics (2013) (0)
Individualism in Psychology, Causal Depth, and Theoretical Appropriateness (1992) (0)
Essentialism and Nativism in the Biological and Cognitive Sciences (2004) (0)
Context-Sensitive Realizations (2004) (0)
Genes and the Agents of Life: Individuals and Biology (2004) (0)
Eugenics: encyclopedia entry (2014) (0)
The Semantics of “Good” & “Evil” (2018) (0)
Fifty American Books (1976) (0)
Organisms, Agency, and Life (2001) (0)
Discussion round table contribution, based on Genes and the Agents of Life and Boundaries of the Mind (2005) (0)
Philosophy Out of School: Workshop Presentation (2018) (0)
Evolution, Modularity, and Individualism in Psychology (1994) (0)
Review of Joseph LaPorte, "Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change." (2004) (0)
Knowing Agency from the Margins (2014) (0)
Subhumanizing the Defective: Dehumanization, Disability, and Eugenics (2015) (0)
Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal (2018) (0)
A Puzzle about Material Constitution (2007) (0)
The Group Mind Hypothesis (1999) (0)
Contemporary Eugenic Provocations (2019) (0)
Eugenics, Disability, and Projects of Racial Improvement (2018) (0)
Precis and Overview of The Eugenic Mind Project (2017) (0)
The Widow's Son (1985) (0)
The Social Mechanics of Eugenics: Two Examples (2019) (0)
Roland Barthes (review) (2010) (0)
Kinship Past, Kinship Present (2016) (0)
Psychology: encyclopedia entry (2014) (0)
The Mechanics and Legacy of a Eugenic Past: The Case of Western Canada (2011) (0)
How can we modernize the introductory physics course (1988) (0)
Eugenics, Disability, and Dehumanization (2020) (0)
Building Undergraduate Communities of Inquiry in Philosophy, Education, and Schools (2012) (0)
On Some Recent Arguments about Extended Cognition (2009) (0)
Editor's Note: Truth or Consequences (2016) (0)
Eugenics, Newgenics, and Disability (2014) (0)
HPS and Engagement (2018) (0)
Eugenics: positive vs negative: encyclopedia entry (2014) (0)
Making Sense of Mental Causation Without Individualism (1992) (0)
Workshop presentation: Evocative Objects (2018) (0)
A Philosopher Looks at Eugenics (2018) (0)
Sorts of people: encyclopedia entry (2014) (0)
The Staying Power of Eugenics: The Case of Intellectual Disability (2019) (0)
“Extended Artistic Appreciation”, commentary on N. J. Bullot and R. Reber, “The artful mind meets art history: Toward a psycho-historical framework for the science of art appreciation” (2013) (0)
The Politics of Embodied Agency (2017) (0)
What Does Cognition Have to Do With What’s In the Head (2011) (0)
Philosophy of Psychology: An Encyclopedia (2005) (0)
Of Philosophers, Folk, and Enthusiasm (2012) (0)
PAR volume 102 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1991) (0)
Volume Contents (2001) (0)
PAR volume 111 issue 5 Cover and Back matter (1995) (0)
Is there a universal concept of mass in fundamental physics? (2022) (0)
Cognition in the Wild, by Edwin Hutchins. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,1995. Pp. xviii + 378. $50.00. Existential Cognition: Computational Minds in the World, by Ron McClamrock. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 205. (1998) (0)
[Review of the book Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, by Rupert] (2010) (0)
Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: An empirical argument: the computational argument (1995) (0)
Explanation and Cognition: chap1-Explaining Explanation (2014) (0)
Boundaries of the Mind: Individuals, Psychology, and the Mind (2004) (0)
Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Rethinking the role of causal powers in taxonomy and explanation (1995) (0)

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