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Revisiting T. C. Schneirla’s “Interrelationships of the ‘Innate’ and the ‘Acquired’ in Instinctive Behavior” (1956)
During the postwar period, the concept of instinct came to encapsulate the debate around the importance of nature versus nurture. The fact that...
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Same-tracking real kinds in the social sciences
The kinds of real or natural kinds that support explanation and prediction in the social sciences are difficult to identify and track because they...
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Vaccines and the Case for the Enhancement of Human Judgment
Many have argued that human enhancement, in particular bioenhancement via genetic engineering, brain-interventions or preimplantation embryo...
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Study protocol: the Australian genetics and life insurance moratorium—monitoring the effectiveness and response (A-GLIMMER) project
BackgroundThe use of genetic test results in risk-rated insurance is a significant concern internationally, with many countries banning or...
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Two Mentalistic Portraits
This chapter describes how the book is structured and how the separate themes are presented by means of a first-person, subjective component...
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Eco-Cognitive Openness and Eco-Cognitive Closure
In this chapter, with the help of the concepts of locked and unlocked strategies, abduction, and optimization of eco-cognitive openness, I will...
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Facial profiling technology and discrimination: a new threat to civil rights in liberal democracies
This paper offers the first philosophical analysis of a form of artificial intelligence (AI) which the author calls facial profiling technology...
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Relevance of Precision Medicine in Public Health Genomics and Global Health Genomics
Precision Medicine (PM) is anticipated to have significant impact on individual health, public health and global health. With advances in sequencing...
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An Early History of the Heritability Coefficient Applied to Humans (1918–1960)
Fisher’s
1918 paper accomplished two distinct goals: unifying discrete Mendelian genetics with continuous biometric phenotypes and quantifying the... -
The Neurophilosophy of Flexible Being
This chapter further discusses how the dynamic brain enables flexible being-in-the-world and promotes adaptability. It explains how neurodynamics...
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Can agroecology and CRISPR mix? The politics of complementarity and moving toward technology sovereignty
Can gene editing and agroecology be complementary? Various formulations of this question now animate debates over the future of food systems,...
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Theory of Mind After Acquired Brain Injury: Basic Aspects, Evaluation and Intervention
Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. It presents with a wide range of symptoms affecting cognitive,...
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Participatory plant breeding and social change in the Midwestern United States: perspectives from the Seed to Kitchen Collaborative
There is a strong need to connect agricultural research to social movements and community-based food system reform efforts. Participatory research...
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Evolution and Evolutionary Medicine in Disease
Evolution has a very strict definition and is very central to evolutionary biology itself when the canonized evolutionary understandings of...
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Reconstructing the Last Common Ancestor: Epistemological and Empirical Challenges
Reconstructing the genetic traits of the Last Common Ancestor (LCA) and the Tree of Life (TOL) are two examples of the reaches of contemporary...
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Should Global Conservation Initiatives Prioritize Phylogenetic Diversity?
Some recent conservation proposals – including the Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) EDGE of Existence programme – have focused on the value of...
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Baladi Seeds in the oPt: Populations as Objects of Preservation and Units of Analysis
This essay argues that shortcomings in our approaches to global agriculture and its data infrastructures are attributable in part to a constricted...
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Precision medicine and the problem of structural injustice
Many countries currently invest in technologies and data infrastructures to foster precision medicine (PM), which is hoped to better tailor disease...
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Incalculable Instrumental Value in the Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 is one of America’s most powerful statutes, not only in American domestic environmental law, but in American...
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Biological Evolution
Over more than 4 billion years, many millions of species have developed on Earth by biological evolution under natural selection. We summarise the...