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Great ape enculturation studies: a neglected resource in cognitive development research
Disagreement remains about whether particular human socio-cognitive traits arose primarily as a result of biological adaptations, or because of...
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Therapeutic Chatbots as Cognitive-Affective Artifacts
Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) systems (also known as AI “chatbots”) are among the most promising examples of the use of technology in...
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Is a Cognitive Revolution in Theoretical Biology Underway?
The foundations of biology have been a topic of debate for the past few decades. The traditional perspective of the Modern Synthesis, which portrays...
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Cognitive Challenge
Human nature’s existence to transcend itself drives human beings for constant creation beyond themselves. The development of intelligent science and...
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Epistemological Realism and Cognitive Science
The author shows that the conception of epistemological realism as a contemporary variant of epistemological realism continues the realism tradition...
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Critique of Cognitive Parallelism
Habermas’s discourse ethics implies a cognitivist assumption that normative claims are justifiable on the basis of communicative reason. This...
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ChatGPT and the Technology-Education Tension: Applying Contextual Virtue Epistemology to a Cognitive Artifact
According to virtue epistemology, the main aim of education is the development of the cognitive character of students (Pritchard,
2014 ,2016 ). Given...
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Culture as Cognitive Technology: An Evolutionary Perspective
Cognitive anthropology is in need of a theory that extends beyond cultural model theory and explains both how culture has transformed human cognition...
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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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Tasks in cognitive science: mechanistic and nonmechanistic perspectives
A tension exists between those who do—e.g. Meyer (The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71:959–985,
2020 ) and Chemero (2011 )—and those...
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The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems
The increasing popularity of artificial cognitive enhancements raises the issue of their impact on the agent’s personal autonomy, and issues...
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Development, Resilience Engineering, Degeneracy, and Cognitive Practices
Drawing on a range of literature, I introduce two new concepts for understanding and exploring distributed cognition: resilience engineering and...
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Narrows, Detours, and Dead Ends—How Cognitive Scaffolds Can Constrain the Mind
The chapter challenges the notion that cognitive tools are universally beneficial and should always be deeply integrated into cognitive systems....
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A Prelude: From Slovak Mountains to Cognitive Biology
The main aim of this article is to provide a short overview of the research that gradually culminated in the concept of cognitive biology. To a...
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Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart
Among those living systems, which are cognizers? Among the behaviours of, and causes of behaviour in, living systems, which are cognitive? Such...
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Silence as a Cognitive Tool to Comprehend the Environment
This article presents silence as a cognitive tool to comprehend the environment. Two dimensions of silence are addressed: a natural mechanism and...
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Writing as an extended cognitive system
This paper presents writing as an extended cognitive system comprised of brain, body, and the material form that is writing. Part I introduces the...
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Cognitive Artifacts Between Cognitive Sciences and the Philosophy of Technology
The aim of this chapter is to explore the key points of the philosophical debate that has developed over the last 10–15 years around the concept of...
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Employee Cognitive Workaholism and Emotional Exhaustion in a Digital Workplace: What Is the Role of Organisations?
Using a quantitative methods approach, we examine the organisational drivers of cognitive workaholism and emotional exhaustion amongst a group of...
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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...