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Perspectivalism about temporal reality
It is usually agreed that reality is temporal in the sense of containing entities that exist in time, but some philosophers, roughly those who have...
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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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On the Ontological Status of Molecular Structure: Is it Possible to Reconcile Molecular Chemistry with Quantum Mechanics?
According to classical molecular chemistry, molecules have a structure, that is, they are sets of atoms with a definite arrangements in space and...
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Ontophylogenesis, Interpretation and Symmetries
After introducing the concept of organization, this chapter is devoted to evolution, limiting analysis to the evolutionary interpretation of...
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The Fall of Textuality and the Rise of Interactivity
In the second chapter of this part I intend to examine the key notion of interactivity as a ground for another paradigmatic shiftParadigmatic shift...
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How to unify grounding and causation
The unification of grounding and causation has been proposed in the literature. Also, it has encountered many objections. In this paper, I argue that...
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Personal identity, possible worlds, and medical ethics
Thought experiments that concoct bizarre possible world modalities are standard fare in debates on personal identity. Appealing to intuitions raised...
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Introduction
In this chapter, I summarize the central argument of the book. The Representational Orthodoxy is the assumption that explaining the human mind always...
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Time and Timelessness in Constitutional Thought
This paper considers the character of moral peoplehood, our life as a people, and the rules and principles through which that life is expressed. In...
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Experience, Analogy and Mechanism in Maupertuis’s Theory of Generation
At the mid-eighteenth century, the formulation of alternative theories undermined the hegemony of preexistence in the debate on animal generation....
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Causal Explanations
Views on the nature of causation are considered. It is argued that we need one that avoids certain metaphysical posits as universal regularities,...
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The Subject-Dependency of Perceptual Objects
Entities that are, in ordinary perceptual situations, veridically presented as objects can be called ‘perceptual objects’. In the philosophical...
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Who’s afraid of reverse mereological essentialism?
Whereas Mereological Essentialism is the thesis that the parts of an object are essential to it, Reverse Mereological Essentialism is the thesis that...
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A Methodological Problem of Choice for 4E Research
The 4E approaches have been frequently linked to the claim that they fundamentally change how we theoretically analyze and empirically investigate...
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Structural Enacted or Extended Mind (STEEM)
In this chapter, I show how insights from Wittgenstein can transform 4E Cognitive Science. Extended Mind is compatible with the Representational...
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The Unconscious in Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology
This chapter is devoted to the comparative analysis of the phenomenological and the psychoanalytic unconscious. The aim of the chapter is to examine...
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Theories on Personal Identity Do Not Solve the Fundamental Issue
How to account for the fundamental issue of personal individuality? It seems that the easiest way to solve the issue is considering theories focused...
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Methodological Remarks
This chapter describes how the research was conducted, the level of analysis adopted and clarifies the use of some of the main terms used throughout...
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The emergence of the postgenomic gene
The identity and the existence of genes has been challenged by postgenomic discoveries. Specifically, the consideration of molecular and cellular...
