Philosophy on the Spectrum

The Philosophy of Autism and Autistic Philosophy

This research project is currently housed in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Dalhousie University.

Philosophy on the Spectrum is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

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04 June 2026

LaCroix presents ‘The Autistics and the Machines’ at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science in Halifax.

27 February 2026

LaCroix publishes article ‘No, autistic people are not ‘mind blind’ – here’s why’ in The Conversation.

27 February 2026

LaCroix publishes response to commentaries on ‘Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind’, ‘Autism, Theory of Mind, and the Dynamics of Value-Laden Research Programs’, in Psychological Inquiry.

27 February 2026

Simon Baron-Cohen et al. publish commentary on ‘Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind’, ‘Do Autistic People Have Degrees of Disability in Theory of Mind?’, in Psychological Inquiry.

27 February 2026

Patrick Dwyer publishes commentary on ‘Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind’, ‘Weak Theories, Research Priority-Setting, and Community Partnership’, in Psychological Inquiry.

27 February 2026

Morton Ann Gernsbacher publishes commentary on ‘Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind’, ‘Why the Theory-of-Mind-Deficit Account of Autism Might Persist Despite Evidence to the Contrary’, in Psychological Inquiry.

27 February 2026

Joe Gough publishes commentary on ‘Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind’, ‘Theory of Mind Research in Autism is Simply Hateful; Pseudoscience is Complicated’, in Psychological Inquiry.

27 February 2026

Johan Lundin Kleberg publishes commentary on ‘Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind’, ‘Staying with the Complexity: Refining Theory of Mind Research in Autism’, in Psychological Inquiry.

27 February 2026

Joanna Karolina Malinowska, Valentina Petrolini, and Davide Serpico publish commentary on ‘Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind’, ‘Why Does the Theory-of-Mind Paradigm of Autism Persist?’, in Psychological Inquiry.

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