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Your red isn't my red! Connectionist Structuralism and the puzzle of abstract objects
This paper presents a nine step argument for “Connectionist Structuralism” (CS), a physical nominalist position that takes seriously the non-physical...
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Advaita Ethics for the Machine Age: The Pursuit of Happiness in an Interconnected World
Ethics is a set of values, living which the individual comes to flourish in harmony with society and nature. While society is a creation of language...
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Emotions in (Human-Robot) Relation. Structuring Hybrid Social Ecologies
This essay tackles the core question of machine emotion research—“Can machines have emotions?”—with regard to “social robots”, the new class of...
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Unconcealing Contemporary Technology: Human Enhancement as Biopolitics of Vitality
This chapter presents the thesis that claims that technologies and practices of human enhancement are transformed into an unprecedented biopolitical...
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Evolution in a Test Tube
Current federal research misconduct regulations put universities in charge of investigating allegations made against their own faculty. The central...
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The Metaphysics of Causation in Biological Mechanisms: A Case of the Genetic Switch in Lambda Phage
The emphasis on the organization of entities and their activities and interactions has been labeled one of the most distinct contributions of...
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Healthcare Artificial Intelligence in India and Ethical Aspects
Goal 3 in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) talks about Good Health and Well-being for all by 2030. Several nations globally, including India,...
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“Manufacturing Life” in Real Work Processes? New Manufacturing Environments with Micro- and Nanorobotics
The convergence of nano-, bio-, information, and cognitive sciences and technologies (NBIC) is advancing continuously in many societal spheres. This...
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Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution
Heredity has been dismissed as an insignificant object in Claude Bernard’s physiology, and the topic is usually ignored by historians. Yet, thirty...
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Bichat’s Experimental Physiology in the Recherches (Part 2): Death as an Epistemic Facilitator
This chapter examines the Recherches sur la mort and identifies the epistemic role played by the phenomena of death within the structure of...
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A Protocol for Model Validation and Causal Inference from Computer Simulation
The philosophical literature on modelling is increasingly vast, however clear formal analyses of computational modelling in systems biology are still...
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Inferential Pluralism in Causal Reasoning from Randomized Experiments
Causal pluralism can be defended not only in respect to causal concepts and methodological guidelines, but also at the finer-grained level of causal...
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“Un-Promethean” science and the future of humanity: Heidegger’s warning
The twentieth-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger distinguished “meditative” ( besinnlich ) and “calculative” ( rechnende ) modes of thinking as...
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The plasticity of ageing and the rediscovery of ground-state prevention
In this paper, I present an emerging explanatory framework about ageing and care. In particular, I focus on how, in contrast to most classical...
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Archaic and Modern Religious Ontologies
I consider how human awareness of death affected our understanding of history in the evolution of religion. I defend the idea that the transition...
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The Complexity of Tumor Heterogeneity : Limitations and Challenges of the Pharmacogenomics in Cancer Treatment
One of the most important current applications of personalized medicine is the study of the correlations between genetic variations and the emergence...
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Sozialethische Reflexion
Alternsprävention mit Hilfe von biotechnologischen Eingriffen ist der Biologie des Alterns oder Biogerontologie bereits im Laborversuch bei...
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Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building
This article addresses the contributions of the literature on the new mechanistic philosophy of science for the scientific practice of model building...
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Circuital and Developmental Explanations for the Cortex
The cerebral cortex manifests a feature that puzzles researchers since early neuroscience: the functional repertoire of the cortex is incredibly vast...