• A black and white photograph of Hermann Gross holding a metalworking tool, with an in-progress sculpture before him.
Detail 'Rechnender Greis' painting by Paul Klee, showing a man's face.

A History of Distributed Cognition

Distributed cognition – the idea that cognition or the mind extends across brain, body and world – is not a term that rolls off the tongue. Nevertheless, distributed cognition describes a fundamental aspect of being human. Examples of distributed cognition…

Scottish Philosophy: Neglect and Renewal

By Gordon Graham Philosophy played a key role in the curriculum of the Scottish universities from their foundation in the 15th century to the closing decade of the 19th century. By the middle of the 20th century, however, Hume’s great…