Occasionally, I make threads on social media about papers and books that I read. It helps me focus and process deeper when I share highlights and thoughts with others. In this blogpost, I compile a selection of threads and posts, focussing specifically on work by women in cognitive science (broadly construed).

Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).

2020-now

• Chirimuuta, Mazviita (2025). Why are we still suffering from the blind spot? Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences [thread 🧵]
• Egan, Frances (2026) A Deflationary Account of Mental Representation. [post 🧵]
• Guest, Olivia (2025). What does human-centred ‘AI’ mean? [posts 🧵]

2000-2020

• Elgin, Catherine Z. (2017) True Enough. MIT Press. [thread 🧵]
• Haack, Susan (2012). Six Signs of Scientism. Logos and Episteme. [thread 🧵]
• Schellenberg, Susanna (2018) The Unity of Perception. Content, Consciousness, Evidence. [thread 🧵]

1980-2000

• Diamond, Cora (1981). What nonsense might be. Philosophy 56, 5-22. [post 🧵]
• Henle, Mary (1986). 1879 and All That: Essays in the Theory and History of Psychology. [thread 🧵]

1950-1980

• Henle, Mary (1976). Why study the history of psychology? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 270, 14-20. [thread 🧵]

1900-1950

• Stebbing, Susan (1939). Thinking to some purpose. [thread 🧵]

Before 1900

• Louisa S. Cook (1887). Geometrical psychology, or, the science of representation. [thread 🧵]
• Cavendish, Margaret (1666). Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. [thread 🧵]

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Olivia Guest for many excellent reading recommendations.

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