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    How can you be surprised? The case for volatile expectations
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 6 (1-2): 171-183. 2007.
    Surprise has been characterized has an emotional reaction to an upset belief having a heuristic role and playing a criterial role for belief ascription. The discussion of cases of diachronic and synchronic violations of coherence suggests that surprise plays an epistemic role and provides subjects with some sort of phenomenological access to their subpersonal doxastic states. Lack of surprise seems not to have the same epistemic power. A distinction between belief and expectation is introduced i…Read more
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    Mind, brain, and teaching: Some directions for future research—CORRIGENDUM
    with Tiziana Zalla, Katarina Gvozdic, Cassandra Potier-Watkins, and Manuela Piazza
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39. 2016.
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    Introduction: Teaching and its Building Blocks
    with Sidney Strauss
    Review of Philosophy and Psychology 9 (4): 719-749. 2018.
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    English summary: In a constant dialogue between philosophy, cognitive science, and technology, this volume explores the concept of illusion. French text. French description: Non seulement les etres humains consacrent une grande part de leur temps a des activites imaginaires (ils revent les yeux ouverts, ils lisent un livre, ils vont au cinema, ils s'immergent dans des mondes numeriques) mais ils prennent un vif interet pour le destin de personnages qui n'ont jamais existe et pour des evenements …Read more
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    Varela and embodiment
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 40 (1): 33-35. 2006.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Varela and EmbodimentElena PasquinelliFrancisco Varela (1946-2001) studied biology in Chile and in the United States with neurobiologist Humberto Maturana, with whom he developed the theory of autopoiesis. According to this theory, the minimal form of autonomy that defines biological life is autopoiesis or self-production, which has the aspect of a reaction network, operationally closed and membrane bound. The theory of autopoiesis s…Read more
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    Mind, brain, and teaching: Some directions for future research
    with Tiziana Zalla, Katarina Gvodzic, Cassandra Potier-Watkins, and Manuela Piazza
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38. 2015.