On Kenneth Waltz’ Neorealism

Neorealism: Unifying Cognition and Environment

Recent trends in psychology have revealed increasing discontent toward representational explanations of behavior. However, whether these trends have the conceptual resources to address the full range of cognitive phenomena remains unclear. Here, I defend neorealism (Holt, 1914) as the missing philosophical link between radically embodied cognitive science and a more encompassing psychology. Neo...

Waltz of the chromosomes

cientists have discovered a new function for amyloid precursor protein (APP), a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The finding may reveal how APP gets mixed up with the enzymes that make it go bad. APP has an evil reputation. The and secretases transform it into amyloidpeptide, a component of the plaques that riddle the brain in Alzheimer’s disease. Previous work by Larry Goldstein (Univesi...

Remembering Dave Waltz (1943-2012)

David L Waltz, in Memoriam

tion after completing his dissertation in 1972 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT AI Lab). That dissertation created the field of constraint propagation by showing that constraints and a rich but simple descriptive system were sufficient to recover threedimensional information from a two-dimensional projection. Besides an education, Dave picked ...

Kenneth Catania

R4 Current Biology 27, R1–R18, January 9, 2017 At the time of going to press, the nominations have not included the post of a science advisor, so scientists in the US and their world-leading institutions and associations are wondering how, if at all, verifi able facts from the real world can reach the president. Writing in Science magazine, the CEO of the American Association for the Advancemen...