Introduction

for an epistemology of the human being

1-10

On biological and verbal camouflage

the strategic use of models in non-scientific thinking

13-37

Proto-models, mental models and scientific models

39-65

Models in action

an eco-cognitive outlook on experimental science

67-86

Introducing cognitive niches

89-95

Curating the richness of cognitive niches

97-110

Gossip as multi-level abduction

the inferential ground of linguistic niche construction

111-144

Niche construction through gossip and mobbing

the mediation of violence in technocognitive niches

145-169

The crises of techo-cognitive niches

from maladaptive to terminator niches

171-187

Natural religion, models, and the invention of supernatural beings

191-213

Digitalizing the religious niche (and vice versa)

215-227

Irrationality as an epistemic immunization

cognitive bubbles

229-241

The cognitive impact of religious "rationality"

on forgiveness and the sacrificial mind

243-267

Patterns of rationality

Concluding remarks

Tommaso Bertolotti

269-272