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Categorizing Phenotypic Plasticity: An Analysis of Its Role in Human Cognitive Evolution
I identify six types of phenotypic plasticity and categorize them with respect to their cognitive status. I look at differences and relations between...
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Ethico-Political aspects of clinical judgment in opportunistic screening for cognitive impairment: Arendtian and aristotelian perspectives
This article examines a population-based opportunistic screening practice for cognitive impairment that takes place at a hospital in Sweden. At the...
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Abductive reasoning in cognitive neuroscience: weak and strong reverse inference
Reverse inference is a crucial inferential strategy used in cognitive neuroscience to derive conclusions about the engagement of cognitive processes...
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Cognitive Projects and the Trustworthiness of Positive Truth
The aim of this paper is twofold: first, I provide a cluster of theories of truth in classical logic that is (internally) consistent with global...
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The Future of Eco-Cognitive Settings
Taking advantage of the logical and cognitive studies illustrated in the previous chapters, which emphasize the crucial role played in abductive...
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Towards a Situated Cognitive Approach of Olfactory experiences and Languages
In a series of investigations in everyday life situations in different cultures and languages, in expert professional practices (of perfumers) as...
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Curing Eco-Cognitive Situatedness
Recent research in the area of the so-called EEEE cognition (extended, embodied, embedded, enacted) has shown that human cognition and its...
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A Cultural Species and its Cognitive Phenotypes: Implications for Philosophy
After introducing the new field of cultural evolution, we review a growing body of empirical evidence suggesting that culture shapes what people...
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Prototy** Criptical Neural Engineering — Tentatively Crip** Neural Engineering’s Cultural Practices for Cyborg Survival and Flourishing
This Discussion Note calls for attention to the cultural practices of Neural Engineering as part of the life sciences as practices and technologies...
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A New Mark of the Cognitive? Predictive Processing and Extended Cognition
There is a longstanding debate between those who think that cognition extends into the external environment (extend cognition) and those who think it...
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Cognitive Relativism and Experiential Rationality
Along this chapter I discuss different theories of epistemic relativism. I argue that it is possible to construct a theory of knowledge that is both...
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What’s in a Concept? Conceptualizing the Nonconceptual in Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science
A recurrent problem in the philosophical debates over whether there is or can be nonconceptual experience or whether all experience is conceptually...
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Performance in the Workplace: a Critical Evaluation of Cognitive Enhancement
The popular debates about the future organization of work through artificial intelligence technologies focus on the replacement of human beings by...
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Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion: A Critical Perspective
The first thing that anyone learns about animism is that the word is most closely associated with the nineteenth-century anthropologist Sir Edward...
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The Fundamental Cognitive Destiny of Interdisciplinarity
My purpose is to listen to what is sought to be said in the word interdisciplinarity, to carefully hear what “with” it, and “through” it, is trying...
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Integrating cognitive ethnography and phenomenology: rethinking the study of patient safety in healthcare organisations
While the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of work in the intersection between phenomenology and empirical studies of cognition, the...
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Using fuzzy cognitive map** and social capital to explain differences in sustainability perceptions between farmers in the northeast US and Denmark
Farmers are key actors in the transition towards sustainable agricultural practices. Therefore, it is important to understand farmers’ motivations to...
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“The value-free ideal, the autonomy thesis, and cognitive diversity”
Some debates about the role of non-epistemic values in science discuss the so-called Value-Free Ideal together with the autonomy thesis, to the point...
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Ecological and Related Health Crises as Symptoms of “Wrong Life”: Disturbance, Reflection and Cognitive Transformation
Beyond its distinct geological character, the Anthropocene is also a lived social reality, one whose properties are actively processed and...