‘Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other’ by Anthony Chemero,’The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto’ by Leah Libresco Sargeant reviewed by Guy Lancaster (opens in new tab)

Cartesian dualism, never the strongest of premises, has come in for a right beating in recent years. Evolutionary theory had already broken down the barriers between the animal and the human, and further research into both primate and human cognition has largely disproven the existence of ‘mind’ as something separate from the body. In fact, the summary of his life’s research represented by Robert Sapolsky’s two most recent works, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017) and ...