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Bringing forth a world, literally
Our objective in this paper is twofold: first, we intend to address the tenability of the enactivist middle way between realism and idealism, as it...
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Humor and Ignorance in the Perspective of Cognitive Niche Curation
The Incongruity Theory of humor suggests that humor is triggered by the perception of something incongruous. The recognition of ignorance amounts to...
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“Military Intelligence”
InViolenceand philosophy thePhilosophyand violence paper “Philosophy – The luxurious supplement of violence”, Bevan Catley (2003) says In many of the...
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Converging Concepts of Evolutionary Epistemology and Cognitive Biology Within a Framework of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Evolutionary epistemology (EE) has experienced a continuous rise over the last decades. Important new theoretical considerations and novel empirical...
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The Violent Nature of Language
TheAbductionand pregnances conceptPregnancesand abduction of Affordancesand abduction violenceAbductionand affordances canAffordancesand...
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Scientific Side of the Future of the Internet as a Complex System. The Role of Prediction and Prescription of Applied Sciences
The future of the Internet as a network of networks has many faces. The focus here is on the scientific side, analyzing the various steps relevant to...
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Introduction: The Philosophical Riddle of Death, from a Biological Point of View
This chapter presents the general philosophical problem of biological death, puts it in perspective with traditional meditations on death in Western...
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Symptomologies of Post-Anthropocene
This chapter looks at the symptoms of the post-Anthropocene with the speculation that the capitalist system has brought on the onset of a range of...
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The Embodied Philosopher
This chapter provides a simple functional model of the pursuit of problematization, based on a cluster of theories that have not been tried out in...
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The Demon and the Mars Rover: An Essay on Curiosity
Being curious is something that we take for granted. We attribute curiosity not just to ourselves and other people, but often to animals as well....
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Introduction
One day, the young wizard Harry Potter is required to see his teacher, Professor Severus Snape, who announces that he is going to teach him in the...
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Incorporating (variational) free energy models into mechanisms: the case of predictive processing under the free energy principle
The issue of the relationship between predictive processing (PP) and the free energy principle (FEP) remains a subject of debate and controversy...
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Do Kuhnians have to be anti-realists? Towards a realist reconception of Kuhn’s historiography
It is quite unequivocal that Kuhn was committed to (some version of) naturalism; that he defended, especially in his later work, the autonomy of...
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Finale: Situating the Enactive Approach
This chapter offers some concluding remarks and implications for the study of cognition if we accept that sense-making involves an ecological...
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Faces and situational Agency
Though there are many challenges to Ekman’s thesis that there are basic emotions with universal corresponding facial expressions, our main criticism...
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Ontic and Epistemic Differentiation: Mechanistic Problems for Microbiology and Biology
Species are considered the basic unit of biological classification and evolution. Hence, they are used as a benchmark in several fields, although...
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Multiple Individual Moralities May Trigger Violence
An important research in the area of psychology that can enrich our perspective on the relationship between morality and violence concerns the...
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Broken wills and ill beliefs: Szaszianism, expressivism, and the doubly value-laden nature of mental disorder
Critical psychiatry has recently echoed Szasz’s longstanding concerns about medical understandings of mental distress. According to Szaszianism, the...