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Is There Anything Special About the Ignorance Involved in Big Data Practices?
Here, I address the question of whether there anything special about the ignorance involved in big data practices. I submit that the ignorance that...
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Scientific practice as ecological-enactive co-construction
Philosophy of science has undergone a naturalistic turn, moving away from traditional idealized concerns with the logical structure of scientific...
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From Texts to Enacting Practices: Defining Fair and Equitable Research Principles for Plant Genetic Resources in West Africa
Collaborative research practices in the field of plant genetic resources must follow the principles of fairness and equity as defined in the...
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Interacting Practices: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Synthesis
This chapter will explore both the ways that Quantum Chemistry can contribute to the design of organic syntheses and the extent to which synthesis...
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Beyond biopolitics: the importance of the later work of Foucault to understand care practices of healthcare workers caring for undocumented migrants
BackgroundUndocumented migrants experience multiple institutional and legal barriers when trying to access healthcare services. Due to such...
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Crossing the Red Line? Empirical Evidence and Useful Recommendations on Questionable Research Practices among Business Scholars
Academic leaders in management from all over the world—including recent calls by the Academy of Management Shaw (Academy of Management Journal 60(3):...
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Boredom and Cognitive Engagement: A Functional Theory of Boredom
The functional theory of boredom maintains that boredom ought to be defined in terms of its role in our mental and behavioral economy. Although the...
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Communication Challenges in Modern Social Practices
Communication[aut]Communication challenges to the twenty-first century humankind are as serious as materialistic ones. Search for meaning, the...
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Cognitive Neuroscience’s Contributions to Self-Understanding
What types of questions regarding self-understanding can CNS contribute to, especially if it were to develop well? First, CNS advances our...
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Rethinking Assistive Technologies: Users, Environments, Digital Media, and App-Practices of Hearing
Against the backdrop of an aging world population increasingly affected by a diverse range of abilities and disabilities as well as the rise of...
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Is cultural evolution always fast? Challenging the idea that cognitive gadgets would be capable of rapid and adaptive evolution
Against the background of “arms race” style competitive explanations for complex human cognition, such as the Social Intelligence Hypothesis (Byrne...
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Why does Faithful Epistemic Representation Matter for Management Practices? The Case of the Natural Environment in Management Theory
Management theory is a diverse field where multiple theoretical perspectives coexist and coevolve, leading to conceptual pluralism. While conceptual...
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The Function of Scientific Concepts
The function of concepts must be taken seriously to understand the scientific practices of develo** and working with concepts. Despite its...
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Cognitive Semiotics. Radical Enactivism, Pragmatism and Material Engagement
As suggested by Goran Sonesson (2012: 208) in a seminal article, “cognitive semiotics has been invented many times during the last decades”....
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Local Understandings of Decent Work and the Legitimacy of Global Labour Standards: Insights from Garment Suppliers in Egypt and Jordan
This paper contributes to the debates on the effectiveness and legitimacy of global labour standards. Theoretically, the paper integrates literature...
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Enlanguaged experience. Pragmatist contributions to the continuity between experience and language
In this paper, I present the idea of “enlanguaged experience” as a radicalization of the Pragmatists’ approach to the continuity between language and...
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On the Relationship Between Modelling Practices and Interpretive Stances in Quantum Mechanics
The purpose of this article is to establish a connection between modelling practices and interpretive approaches in quantum mechanics, taking as a...
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Embodiment and cognitive neuroscience: the forgotten tales
In this paper, I suggest that some tales (or narratives) developed in the literature of embodied and radical embodied cognitive science can...
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Religion as Cultural: Culture Shapes Cognitive Mechanisms
This chapter shows how cultural processes can account for the emergence of religious components. We argue that cultural processes can shape the...
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Why go for a computation-based approach to cognitive representation
An influential view in (philosophy of) cognitive science is that computation in cognitive systems is semantic, conceptually depending on...