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Evolution by means of natural selection without reproduction: revam** Lewontin’s account
This paper analyzes recent attempts to reject reproduction with lineage formation as a necessary condition for evolution by means of natural...
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Phenotype then Gene
The theory of evolution of novelty by genetic mutation and reproductive isolation is challenged by concepts such as environmentally triggered traits,...
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Credition and Complex Networks: Understanding the Structure of Belief as a Way of Facilitating Interreligious Dialogue
The study of how belief evolves and interacts with cultural and individual experiences can aid in exercises such as comparative theology and support...
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Social Knowledge, Agreements, and Testimonies
Although experiential knowledge is reliable (because of the adaptation of the cognitive mechanisms by which we achieve such knowledge), this kind of...
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Can land-based and practice-based place identities explain farmers’ adaptation strategies in peri-urban areas? A case study of Metropolitan Sydney, Australia
Peri-urban areas around Sydney, as around many cities in the world, are spaces in mutation, which are underdoing dramatic changes in their land use...
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Moving beyond direct marketing with new mediated models: evolution of or departure from alternative food networks?
For some time we have seen a shift away from direct marketing, a core feature and dominant exchange form in the alternative food world, towards a...
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Empirical adaptationism revisited: is it testable and is it worth testing?
Empirical adaptationism is often said to be an empirical claim about nature, which concerns the overall relative causal importance of natural...
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Selfish Genes and Morality
Though the concept of the selfish gene (articulated in Richard Dawkins’s book The Selfish Gene) is now dated, it is still influential in evolutionary...
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Engaging the Adaptive Subject: Learning Evolution Beyond the Cell Walls
According to the modern synthesis (MS), evolution is the gradual change of gene frequencies in a population. The MS is closely allied to...
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Introduction to Life and Evolution
During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin America to the history and philosophy of biology. As attested by the creation...
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Gesture, meaning, and intentionality: from radical to pragmatist enactive theory of language
The article argues in favour of a pragmatist enactive interpretation of the emergence of the symbolic and contentful mind from a basic form of social...
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Cognitive Niche Construction and Extragenetic Information: A Sense of Purposefulness in Evolution
My book Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning (
2009 ) basically refers to all kinds of human... -
Teleology and function in non-living nature
There’s a general assumption that teleology and function do not exist in inanimate nature. Throughout biology, it is generally taken as granted that...
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Causally Modeling Adaptation to the Environment
Brandon claims that to explain adaptation one must specify fitnesses in each selective environment and specify the distribution of individuals across...
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Adaptation, Translation, and Philosophical Investigation in Adaptation
This chapter investigates the content of the concept of adaptation, as it is seen on analogy to linguistic translation and as it is seen as itself a...
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Evolutionary trends and goal directedness
The conventional wisdom declares that evolution is not goal directed, that teleological considerations play no part in our understanding of...
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Technics and signs: anthropogenesis in Vygotsky, Leroi-Gourhan, and Stiegler
This paper reconstructs L.S. Vygotsky’s account of anthropogenesis with respect to the work of anthropologist André Leroi-Gourhan and late...
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Cognitive Twists: The Coevolution of Learning and Genes in Human Cognition
In this paper, we propose the expression cognitive twists for cognitive mechanisms that result from the coevolution of genes and learning. Evidence...
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Prague Structuralism and the Poetic Function
Structuralism has impacted the humanities and sciences, including biology. A limitation of structuralist models is their static nature. Saussure’s...
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Science and ideology in the Soviet capital discourse of religious studies: dichotomous analysis
Dichotomous analysis is used as a method to identify the contradictory nature and ways of adaption demonstrated by representatives of the Moscow...