According to researchers of manuscripts, the treatise of Alhendeba is certainly a work of Avecinna’s own writing. This treatise, written in Arabic, is Avecinna’s reply to an inquisition presented to him, questioning the reason chicory (Alhendeba) should not be washed at the time of consumption. Avicenna answers using the Prophet Mohammed’s narration about chicory and adds his own scientific exp...

In this issue of Neuron, Sanders et al. (2016) demonstrate that human confidence judgments seem to arise from computations compatible with statistical decision theory, shining a new light on the old questions of how such judgments are formed.

Some of Hume’s central arguments in the Treatise—for example, about causality, self, and motivation—concern which our perceptions represent, what these can cannot represent. A growing body literature aims to reconstruct theory mental representation that (it is presumed) underwrites arguments. The most popular type interpretation says that, according theory, copying plays a significant role expl...