Introduction: For an epistemology of the human being
On biological and verbal camouflage: the strategic use of models in non-scientific thinking
Proto-models, mental models and scientific models
Models in action: an eco-cognitive outlook on experimental science
Introducing cognitive niches
Curating the richness of cognitive niches
Gossip as multi-level abduction: the inferential ground of linguistic niche construction
Niche construction through gossip and mobbing: the mediation of violence in technocognitive niches
The crises of techo-cognitive niches: from maladaptive to terminator niches
Natural religion, models, and the invention of supernatural beings
Digitalizing the religious niche (and vice versa)
Irrationality as an epistemic immunization: cognitive bubbles
The cognitive impact of religious "rationality": on forgiveness and the sacrificial mind
Patterns of rationality: concluding remarks.
