Published Books
2024 Slime Mould and Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Published Journal Articles and Chapters in Collected Volumes
2026 Memory Without Learning: A Case Study with an Acellular Slime Mould in Grant Ramsey and Bendik Hellem Aaby (eds) , Psychodiversity: Cognition and Sentience Beyond Humans, Routledge (forthcoming).
2025 Making Sense of Monitor Lizard Cognition: Ecological drivers of divergent cognitive evolution Biological Theory (forthcoming).
2025 On the Prospects of Basal Cognition Research Becoming Fully Evolutionary (M. Sims & A. Fábregas-Tejeda) History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00660-y.
2024 The Principle of Dynamic Holism: guiding methodology for investigating cognition in non-neuronal organisms Philosophy of Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.104.
2023 Ecological in Spirit: Predictive Processing and the Limits of Direct Perception in Manuel Curado and Steven S. Gouveia (eds) Predictive Processing: New Models of the Brian and Information, Vernon Press.
2023 Many Paths to Anticipatory Behaviour: anticipatory model acquisition across phylogenetic and ontogenetic timescales Biological Theory, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00426-w.
2022 Concern Across Scales: a biologically inspired embodied artificial intelligence Frontiers in Neurorobotics, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2022.857614.
2022 Externalized Memory in Slime Mould and the Extended (non-neuronal) Mind (M. Sims & J. Kiverstein) Cognitive Systems Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2021.12.001.
2021 Continuum of Intentionality: linking the biogenic and anthropogenic approaches to cognition Biology & Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09827-w.
2021 Modelling Ourselves: what the debate on the Free Energy Principle reveals about our implicit notions of representation (M. Sims & G. Pezzulo) Synthese, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03140-5.
2021 Is Free Energy Minimization the Mark of the Cognitive? (K. Kiverstein & M. Sims) Biology & Philosophy 36(2), doi.org/ 10.1007/s10539-021-09788-0.
2020 How to Count Biological Minds: symbiosis, the Free-energy Principle, and reciprocal multiscale integration Synthese. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02876-w.
2019 Minimal-Perception: Responding to the Challenges of Perceptual Constancy and Veridicality with Plants Philosophical Psychology, doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2019.1646898.
2019 Coupling to Variant Information: an ecological account of comparative mental imagery generation Review of Philosophy and Psychology, doi.org/10.1007/s13164-019-00454-9.
Outreach Publications
2025 What Can Slime Mould Teach Us About Biological Memory Aeon Magazine https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-slime-mould-teach-us-about-biological-memory
Book Reviews
2025 Review of The Organism, J. Baedke (2025), The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (forthcoming)
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