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Between social cognition and material engagement: the cooperative body hypothesis
In recent years, social cognition approaches to human evolution and Material Engagement Theory have offered new theoretical resources to advance our...
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Against the singularity hypothesis
The singularity hypothesis is a hypothesis about the future of artificial intelligence on which self-improving artificial agents will quickly become...
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After the trans brain: a critique of the neurobiological accounts of embodied trans* identities
This paper critically analyses three main neurobiological hypotheses on trans* identities: the neurobiological theory about the origin of gender...
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Data on the Brain
A central contention that has been evolving throughout this book is the idea that where brain data grow in volume and use, challenges can emerge...
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Social learning in models and minds
After more than a century in which social learning was blackboxed by evolutionary biologists, psychologists and economists, there is now a thriving...
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Scientific metaphysics and social science
Recently, philosophers have developed an extensive literature on social ontology that applies methods and concepts from analytic metaphysics. Much of...
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Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science
Quantum mechanics supersedes classical mechanics, and social science, some argue, should be responsive to this change. This paper finds that two...
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Identifying Relational Applications of Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment Resistant Depression
The adaptive BCI known as ‘closed-loop deep brain stimulation’ (clDBS) is a device that stimulates the brain in order to prevent pathological neural...
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Brain age Prediction and the Challenge of Biological Concepts of Aging
Brain age prediction is a relatively new tool in neuro-medicine and the neurosciences. In research and clinical practice, it finds multiple use as a...
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The Internalization Hypothesis: A New Reading
In Chap. 4 , I begin by reconstructing the customary view of GM II 16 along with the passages that support the...
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Science and Hypothesis
In this chapter, we will discuss the significance of a ‘hypothesis’ in a logical inquiry, a scientific investigation, and research work. We will...
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Theory of Mind After Acquired Brain Injury: Basic Aspects, Evaluation and Intervention
Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. It presents with a wide range of symptoms affecting cognitive,...
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A plea for descriptive social ontology
Social phenomena—quite like mental states in the philosophy of mind—are often regarded as potential troublemakers from the start, particularly if...
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Human Brain Organoid Transplantation: Testing the Foundations of Animal Research Ethics
Alongside in vitro studies, researchers are increasingly exploring the transplantation of human brain organoids (HBOs) into non-human animals to...
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The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation
This study adopted an empirical method to investigate lay people’s attitudes toward the bioethical issues of human-animal chimeric brains. The...
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Phenomenology of social explanation
The orthodox view of social cognition maintains that mentalizing is an important and pervasive element of our ordinary social interactions. The...
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The Scapegoat Mechanism in Human Evolution: An Analysis of René Girard’s Hypothesis on the Process of Hominization
According to anthropological philosopher René Girard (1923–2015), an important human adaptation is our propensity to victimize or scapegoat. He...
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Attitude and concerns of healthy individuals regarding post-mortem brain donation. A qualitative study on a nation-wide sample in Italy
BackgroundCollecting post-mortem brain tissue is essential, especially from healthy “control” individuals, to advance knowledge on increasingly...
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Deterministic Attributions of Behavior: Brain versus Genes
This research examined the influence of social-, genetic-, and brain-based explanations on attributions of others’ behaviors. Participants were...
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The Kidnap** of Dual-Brain
The Kidnap** of Dual-Brain. It can be found from all kinds of traditional cognitive theories that they focus on the human “mind” and “brain”, which...