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People are STRANGE: towards a philosophical archaeology of self
Philosophical preoccupation with the hard problem of self-consciousness often takes human becoming for granted. In archaeology, the opposite is the...
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Of Yeasts and Humans
Humankind, the biological species Homo sapiens , lives today in a very different world from the one for which it was evolutionarily selected in the...
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Amodal Completion: Mental Imagery or 3D Modeling?
In amodal completion the mind in some sense completes the visual perceptual representation of a scene by representing parts of the scene hidden...
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What Is Wrong with Aesthetic Empiricism? An Experimental Study
According to Aesthetic Empiricism, only the features of artworks accessible by sensory perception can be aesthetically relevant. In other words,...
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For a contextualist and content-related understanding of the difference between human and artificial intelligence
The development of artificial intelligence necessarily implies the anthropological question of the difference between human and artificial...
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Why Is the Frequency of a Risk More Important than Its Severity in Retaining Adaptive Information? A Multilevel Analysis of Human Evolution Using Snakes as Models
Human beings have a memory adapted to primarily retain and recall information that favors their survival and reproduction. We tested whether the...
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Dual process theory and the challenges of functional individuation
Despite on-going debates in philosophy and cognitive science, dual process theory (DPT) remains a popular framework for theorizing about human...
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Engaging with Conspiracy Believers
Conspiracy theories abound in social and political discourse, believed by millions of people around the world. In this article, we highlight when it...
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Early Conceptual Knowledge About Food
Recent research suggests that preschool (three- to six-years-old) children’s food cognition involves much more than the nutritional information...
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Paths of Purposiveness
This article aims to challenge the prevailing dichotomous approaches to goal-directedness across diverse scientific disciplines. To that effect, it...
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A Prelude: From Slovak Mountains to Cognitive Biology
The main aim of this article is to provide a short overview of the research that gradually culminated in the concept of cognitive biology. To a...
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Eating and Cognition in Two Animals without Neurons: Sponges and Trichoplax
Eating is a fundamental behavior in which all organisms must engage in order to procure the material and energy from their environment that they need...
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On losing certainty
This paper develops a phenomenological account of what it is to lose a primitive and pervasive sense of certainty . I begin by considering Wolfgang...
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The problem of sentience
Sentience, as the capacity to feel pleasure and pain, is often understood as a property of an organism, and the main problem is to determine whether...
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Affordances, phenomenology, pragmatism and the myth of the given
This paper addresses a potential contradiction between the two primary philosophical traditions that inform Gibsonian ecological psychology: the...
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“I’m Not Hungry:” Bodily Representations and Bodily Experiences in Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric illness that presents a complex variety of perceptual alterations and somatic sensations. These alterations...
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Where is the Motivation in Motivated Numeracy?
In a series of very influential papers, Dan Kahan argues for “the identity protective cognition thesis”: the claim that politically motivated...
