What is social pressure, and how could it be adaptive to conform to others' expectations?
Existing accounts highlight the importance of reputation and social sanctions. Yet, conformist …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

Confirmation bias is one of the most widely discussed epistemically problematic cognitions,
challenging reliable belief formation and the correction of inaccurate views. Given its …

A proposal that human social cognition would not have evolved without mechanisms and
practices that shape minds in ways that make them easier to interpret. In this novel account …

This paper provides an account of social practices that reveals how they are constitutive of
social agency, enable coordination around things of value, and are a site for social …

An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much
read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations. By …

Sanford C. Goldberg argues in this volume that epistemic normativity-the sort of normativity
implicated in assessments of whether a belief amounts to knowledge-is grounded in the …

We live in an age of scientific collaboration, popular uprisings, failing political parties, and
increasing corporate power. Many of these kinds of collective action derive from the …

Much contemporary social epistemology takes as its starting point individuals with
sophisticated propositional attitudes and considers (i) how those individuals depend on …

We use a general computational framework for brain function to develop a theory of the self.
The theory is that the self is an inferred model of endogenous, deeply hidden causes of …