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Neuroscience with New Materialism
This first chapter of this second section starts with an overview of some of the issues that I developed in the first volume. It then proceeds with a...
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Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge
Emphatic claims of a “microbiome revolution” aside, the study of the gut microbiota and its role in organismal development and evolution is a central...
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Selecting the Next Generation
This paper discusses one area of the interface between science and ethics: the genetic manipulation and design of human beings. Genetic interventions...
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A fetus in the world: Physiology, epidemiology, and the making of fetal origins of adult disease
Since the late 1980s, the fetal origins of adult disease , from 2003 developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), has stimulated significant...
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Ghost of Revolution
A modest piece of experimental writing, Ghost of Revolution is intended as a methodological tool to question the form and function (tactics) of...
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History and the Quest for a Historiography of Scientific Explorations and Evolutionism in the American Tropics
We present a panoramic view of the history of scientific explorations and evolutionism, and its historiography over the last four decades, on the...
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Representationalism Versus Anti-Representationalism About Perceptual Experience and in Cognitive Science
This chapter and the next form of unit. In this one, I present and explore two further representationalist versus anti-representationalist debates...
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Nativism and empiricism in artificial intelligence
Historically, the dispute between empiricists and nativists in philosophy and cognitive science has concerned human and animal minds (Margolis and...
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What is it like to be a chimpanzee?
Chimpanzees and humans are close evolutionary relatives who behave in many of the same ways based on a similar type of agentive organization. To what...
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Modal inferences in science: a tale of two epistemologies
Recent epistemology of modality has seen a growing trend towards metaphysics-first approaches. Contrastingly, this paper offers a more...
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The Role of Language in the Cognitive Sciences
This chapter concerns the contemporary challenges to the place of language and linguistics in the cognitive sciences (Jackendoff, The foundations of...
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Moral and Violent Mediators
The concept of cognitive niche is useful to frame morality and violence in a naturalistic perspective. The first sections of this chapter aim at...
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Psychology and Physics: A Non-invasive Approach to the Functioning of the Human Mirror Neuron System
At first glance, psychology and physics seem to have nothing in common. However, in both disciplines, sections are dealing with the study of one of...
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Context Matters: A Response to Autzen and Okasha’s Reply to Takacs and Bourrat
In a recent reply to Takacs and Bourrat’s article (Biol Philos 37:12, 2022), Autzen and Okasha (Biol Philos 37:37, 2022) question our...
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The explanatory nature of constraints: Law-based, mathematical, and causal
This paper provides an analysis of explanatory constraints and their role in scientific explanation. This analysis clarifies main characteristics of...
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Life and Evolution Latin American Essays on the History and Philosophy of Biology
This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology...
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Progressive and degenerative journals: on the growth and appraisal of knowledge in scholarly publishing
Despite continued attention, finding adequate criteria for distinguishing “good” from “bad” scholarly journals remains an elusive goal. In this...