Join the CMIST and EPP as we celebrate the release of Professor Baruch Fischhoff’s most recent book, Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices. Registration required: forms.gle/WZ8uUwY4Ce9VBK…

New Book release! Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices by Baruch Fischhoff explores how we make decisions—big and small—and how decision science has evolved over the last 50 years. From personal choices to public policy, this book offers a fascinating

How can academic research make hard decisions easier? In his most recent book, CMIST & CMU Engineering & Public Policy Professor Baruch Fischhoff offers a comprehensive and accessible look at the science of human decision-making and how the research bridges theory and practice. cmu.edu/cmist/news-eve…

Why are people overconfident? What do we know about this cognitive bias? CMIST & CMU Engineering & Public Policy 's Baruch Fischhoff discusses some of his research that explored how people's perceptions of their accuracy compared to how accurate they really were. Watch: youtu.be/9M_QK4stCJU?si…

Happy to see my work mentioned in this The New York Times article nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opi…

Parenting by Heidi Keller: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…

Starting this week on The Brains Blog. Full week of commentaries on The Idealized Mind with commentaries from Zoe Drayson, Karl Friston, Frances Egan and Corey Maley philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/01/sym… Idealized models in neuroscience and implications. Come along!

On language and thought: evidence from aphasia. My latest essay for Psychology Today from my new book, Wired for Words, published The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. a.co/d/itQY0QZ psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wired-…

Iconicity by David M. Sidhu: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…

Day 2 of the Brains Blog symposium of The Idealized Mind. Attached are link to Zoe Drayson's commentary and my response. philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/02/cha… philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/02/aut… How can idealized models explain if they don't represent? Have a look in the links!

Cognitive Development by Susan A. Gelman: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…

When I was a post doc at MIT, I used to walk over to the The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social bookstore to browse, wishing that someday I would have a book of my own published there. 33 years later...

❤️ Congratulations, Gregory! Find "Wired for Words" at the MIT Press Bookstore or your favorite retailer: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553414/…

Day 3 of the Brain's Blog symposium of 'The Idealized Mind'. Attached are links to Frances Egan's commentary and my response: philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/03/som… philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/03/aut… Should we think that nervous systems compute? That's the topic of Day 3!

The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…

Day 4 of the Brain's Blog symposium of 'The Idealized Mind'. Attached are links to Corey J. Maley's commentary and my response: philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/04/com… philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/04/aut… Am I committed to there being no physical computers that compute?

Sign Language by Carol Padden: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…

Very pleased to share that THE WEAPONIZATION OF EXPERTISE by The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social authors Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson has been named one of the best books of 2025 by The The New Yorker magazine! a.co/d/2r1Bejp

Given the homologies between language and non-linguistic systems (see linked essay), I've come to the view that it is time for people working in other domains of cognitive neuroscience to look to language for insights into their system of interest. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wired-…

Weaponization makes The New Yorker list of Best Books for 2025: newyorker.com/best-books-2025