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Making sense of ‘genetic programs’: biomolecular Post–Newell production systems
The biomedical literature makes extensive use of the concept of a genetic program. So far, however, the nature of genetic programs has received no...
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The Mundane Dialectic of Enlightenment: Typification as Everyday Identity Thinking
To make Adorno’s difficult notion of “identity thinking” more amendable to sociological research, this project brings his Negative Dialectics into...
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Deep Thinking or Resistance? On Finding a Middle Ground between Paolo Freire’s Critical Pedagogy and John Dewey’s Pragmatism
Today’s educational system is in a quandary. On the one hand, colleges produce deep thinkers who possess skills necessary to adapt to an...
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Converging Approach to Intelligence: Decision-Making Systems in Artificial Intelligence and Reflections on Human Intelligence
Almost seven decades ago, (Turing, in Mind 59:433–460, 1950) posed the far-reaching question: “Can machines think?” Well, it depends, Turing,...
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Poetry and Business: Thinking Beyond the Facts
Poetry and business have generally been seen as belonging to opposed worlds, despite some overlaps and limited cross-fertilization. This chapter...
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Why Systems Collapse
Wood and Sosis (Connor Wood and Richard Sosis, “Simulating Religions as Adaptive Systems”, in Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and...
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Philosophical Thinking on the Division of Labor
The division of labor is still an important turning point in the development of capital logic, although in the production of relative surplus value,...
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A Values Framework for Evaluating Alienation in Off-Earth Food Systems
Given the technological constraints of long-duration space travel and planetary settlement, off-Earth humans will likely need to employ food systems...
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Applying Depth Thinking to Accountability
Accounting and business must begin the task of exploring the politics of difference and fullness in a world of half-understood social domination and...
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Introduction: Understanding and Regulating AI-Powered Recommender Systems
When a person recommends a restaurant, movie or book, he or she is usually thanked for this recommendation. The person receiving the information will...
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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Ethics-Oriented HRM Systems, Moral Attentiveness, and Deviant Workplace Behavior
Deviant workplace behaviors (DWB) cause enormous costs to organizations, sparking considerable interest among researchers and practitioners to...
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AI as Philosophical Ideology: A Critical look back at John McCarthy’s Program
AI has become the poster child for a certain kind of thinking which holds that some technologies can become objective, independent and emergent...
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Ecological regulation for healthy and sustainable food systems: responding to the global rise of ultra-processed foods
Many are calling for transformative food systems changes to promote population and planetary health. Yet there is a lack of research that considers...
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Is There a Role for Adversariality in Teaching Critical Thinking?
There has been considerable recent debate regarding the possible epistemic benefits versus the potential risks of adversariality in argumentation....
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How does Representational Transformation Enhance Mathematical Thinking?
Representational transformation is a technique for deepening our understanding of mathematical concepts and facilitating the process of solving...
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Does nature learn? Information integration and rare events in systems of increasing complexity
The environment is a continuous source of matter and energy, which dynamizes the adaptive processes of biological systems, so that these systems...
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Perspectives of agriculture, nutrition and health researchers regarding research governance in Malawi. Using a leadership, ethics, governance and systems framework
BackgroundResearch ethics is intertwined with and depends on building robust and responsive research governance systems alongside researchers....
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Explanation versus Understanding: On Two Roles of Dynamical Systems Theory in Extended Cognition Research
It is widely believed that mathematics carries a substantial part of the explanatory burden in science. However, mathematics can also play important...
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Producer and consumer perspectives on supporting and diversifying local food systems in central Iowa
The majority of food in the US is distributed through global/national supply chains that exclude locally-produced goods. This situation offers...
