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Hohwy’s book consists of three parts: an introduction to predictive coding and a predictive account of interactions with the world and of the mind. In the first part, Hohwy discusses the foundations of causal inferences as a mechanism of perception (Ch1). Subsequently, he discusses prediction error minimalisation (Ch2) and the role of errors, context and the precision of prediction in this proc...

With the recent publication of the human genome sequence, biology and medicine have entered an extra-ordinary era. This accomplishment has raised hope that the complexity of a living organism, including its perplexing behavior and various disease states, is tractable. In this issue, our book reviews focus on current books that discuss the build up to this monumental event in science, the import...

There is an increasing amount of content relating to the history of medicine appearing online and many of our journals are adding 'media' or 'digital humanities' review sections. Yet, unlike book reviews, it remains unclear how scholars should go about writing a peer-review of a website. This review of Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine makes an attempt to outline the criteria b...

T was a gray Baltimore morning in April 1942 when I first met George Rosen in the Johns Hopkins Institute. We 'clicked' immediately. Being both devotees of medical history we talked for hours almost exclusively about our adored subject; strangely enough neither about our careers (as it behooves colleagues) nor about world politics, though at that moment it breathed heavily down all our necks. I...

Editor’s Note: In the June 2005 issue we published a book review—written by Daniel M. Brooks—of Currassows and Related Birds by J. Delacour and D. Amadon (2004), with an updated chapter by J. del Hoyo and A. Motis. This was an unsolicited review sent to us by Dr. Brooks. After publication we learned that the same or very similar reviews by Dr. Brooks have appeared in at least four other journal...

This introduction to a symposium on the centennial of Edward L. Thorndike’s 1898 monograph on animal intelligence briefly considers the origins of his law of effect and the influence of Darwin’s selectionism. It also provides the background for an unfinished book review by William W. Cumming of a biography of Thorndike. The review places in historical context Thorndike’s position both on psycho...

The paper attempts to make a contrastive analysis of English and Chinese book reviews on linguistics in the light of the appraisal theory to discover the similarities and differences between English book reviews on linguistics (henceforth EBRLs) and Chinese book reviews on linguistics (henceforth CBRLs) with respect to the three attitude variables of affect, judgment and valuation. In both EBRL...