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Institutions as Cognitive Niches: A Dynamic of Knowledge and Ignorance
Institutions have become fashionable. There is a growing field of institutional economics, as well as more abstract studies of institutions...
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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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Curing Eco-Cognitive Situatedness
Recent research in the area of the so-called EEEE cognition (extended, embodied, embedded, enacted) has shown that human cognition and its...
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The Future of Eco-Cognitive Settings
Taking advantage of the logical and cognitive studies illustrated in the previous chapters, which emphasize the crucial role played in abductive...
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Situated ignorance: the distribution and extension of ignorance in cognitive niches
Ignorance is easily representable as a cognitive property of more than just individual subjects: groups, crowds, and even populations can share the...
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From neurodiversity to neurodivergence: the role of epistemic and cognitive marginalization
Diversity is an undeniable fact of nature (Gaston and Spicer in Biodiversity: an introduction. Wiley, Hoboken, 2004), and there is now evidence that...
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Doing Violence to the Production of Scientific Knowledge
In this chapter I will analyze some important aspects of the organization of Research and Development (R &D) in the case of biopharmaceutical...
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A New Mark of the Cognitive? Predictive Processing and Extended Cognition
There is a longstanding debate between those who think that cognition extends into the external environment (extend cognition) and those who think it...
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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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Defining Communication and Language from Within a Pluralistic Evolutionary Worldview
New definitions are proposed for communication and language. Communication is defined as the evolution of physical, biochemical, cellular, community,...
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Jeopardizing Discoverability
In this chapter I will analyze some important aspects of the organization of Research and Development (R&D) in the case of biopharmaceutical...
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Introduction: Externalist Perspectives on Ignorance and Cognition
The externalist currents in cognitive science have overturned different assumptions regarding how our cognition works: disembodiment,...
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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 (
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Digitally Scaffolded Vulnerability: Facebook’s Recommender System as an Affective Scaffold and a Tool for Mind Invasion
I aim to illustrate how the recommender systems of digital platforms create a particularly problematic kind of vulnerability in their users....
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The logos of techné: A Case for Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology
This chapter develops the potential of a literal understanding of technology (as logos of techné), to develop an interdisciplinary anthropology....
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Virtual Reality, Embodiment, and Allusion: an Ecological-Enactive Approach
It is common in the cognitive and computational sciences to regard virtual reality (VR) as composed of illusory experiences, given its immersive...
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The “One Health” approach in the face of Covid-19: how radical should it be?
BackgroundThe 2020-2021 coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is just the latest epidemic event that requires us to rethink and change our understanding of...
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Morality as Cognitive Scaffolding in the Nucleus of the Mesoamerican Cosmovision
The aim of this chapter is to investigate changes and continuities of human moral systems from an evolutionary and socio-historical perspective....
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Moral Bubbles: Legitimizing and Dissimulating Violence Distributing Violence through Fallacies
Among Languageand violence theViolenceand language philosophers, Derrida Derrida, J.is the only one to clearly analyze and explore the link between...