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Philosophical empathy (in the Style of Merleau-Ponty)
Is there a sense in which we can be said to empathize with a philosophical position and, if so, what does empathy consist of here? Drawing on themes...
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Paying attention: the neurocognition of archery, Middle Stone Age bow hunting, and the sha** of the sapient mind
With this contribution I explore the relationship between attention development in modern archers and attention as a cognitive requirement for...
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Introduction and Methodological Framework
This chapter lays out the background to the research, outlines the structure of the book, and explains the sequence of the chapters and choice of...
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The Farm in Colonial and Postindependence Imagination: A Crisis of Continuity
In the note of content for this book, emphasis was partly on the “limited resources at [the] disposal” of humans with which “to take care of the...
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck: La marche de la nature
Lamarck’s innovative science of transforming living entities, “la marche de la nature,” later called ‘evolution,’ received various interpretations,...
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Situated authenticity in episodic memory
A recalled memory is deemed authentic when it accurately represents how one experienced the original event. However, given the convincing research in...
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Hiding Behind Machines: Artificial Agents May Help to Evade Punishment
The transfer of tasks with sometimes far-reaching implications to autonomous systems raises a number of ethical questions. In addition to fundamental...
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Conversational Machinations
In this chapter, I am discussing the issue of assigning thought to AI entities. Using the example of Sophia the Robot, I try to show that “assigning...
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Understanding the Scientific Creativity Based on Various Perspectives of Science
The objective of our study is to explore scientific creativity with a focus on intellectual (thinking) skills in the cognitive aspect by analyzing...
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Affect as a Feeling of Harmonic Intensity
The following theoretical approach to affect builds upon the ideas of Alfred North Whitehead, especially his concepts of intensity and contrast...
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The Intransparency of Parentheticalism
It has frequently been observed that typical utterances of the form “I believe that P” are assertions of the embedded proposition P. Yet that the...
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Joining Forces – Staying Unique: Adapting RRI to Different Research and Innovation Funding Agency Contexts
European and national research and innovation (R & I) policies are increasingly oriented towards the task to tackle the unprecedented challenges...
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Humean learning (how to learn)
David Hume’s skeptical solution to the problem of induction was grounded in his belief that we learn by means of custom . We consider here how a form...
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Learning how to learn by self-tuning reinforcement
Humans and many animals are capable of learning and learning how to learn better. We are concerned here with one way that reinforcement learners...
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Epistemology for interdisciplinary research – shifting philosophical paradigms of science
In science policy, it is generally acknowledged that science-based problem-solving requires interdisciplinary research. For example, policy makers...
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The role of creativity in expertise and skilled action
Perhaps a part of what makes expertise so inspiring to the curious researcher is the possibility of appropriating the structural components of...
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Tools and peripersonal space: an enactive account of bodily space
Peripersonal space (PPS) is frequently defined as a plastic, pragmatic and goal-directed multisensory buffer that connects the brain-body with its...
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The Rise and Fading Away of Charisma. Leadership Transition and Managerial Ethics in the Post-Soviet Media Holdings
This paper examines post-communist managerial ethics during the emergence and transition of charismatic leadership in two privately owned media...
