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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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The Synthesis of Texts as a Synthesis of Life
The reader’s sense of a text can dynamically change even within the space of a single first reading, let alone in repeated readings. The current...
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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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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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From the Modern Synthesis to the Inclusive Evolutionary Synthesis: An Einsteinian Revolution in Evolution
After reviewing the evidence that led many evolutionary biologists to highlight the necessity to have the Modern Synthesis of Evolution evolve...
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Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a diagnostic category indicating cognitive impairment which does not meet diagnostic criteria for dementia such as...
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Jean Gayon, History and Philosophy of Biology: A New Synthesis
In this contribution, I show that Jean Gayon’s work operates an original synthesis between the history of scienceHistory of science, the philosophy...
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Cognitive Architectures Based on Natural Info-Computation
At the time when the first models of cognitive architectures have been proposed, some forty years ago, understanding of cognition, embodiment and...
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Interacting Practices: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Synthesis
This chapter will explore both the ways that Quantum Chemistry can contribute to the design of organic syntheses and the extent to which synthesis...
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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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Abductive reasoning in cognitive neuroscience: weak and strong reverse inference
Reverse inference is a crucial inferential strategy used in cognitive neuroscience to derive conclusions about the engagement of cognitive processes...
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What’s in a Concept? Conceptualizing the Nonconceptual in Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science
A recurrent problem in the philosophical debates over whether there is or can be nonconceptual experience or whether all experience is conceptually...
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Drives in Schelling: Drives as Cognitive Faculties
Quite remarkably, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling uses the notion of “drive” (and related notions, such as “instinct”) in analysing important...
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Discussion, Implication, Synthesis
At the end of the text, I take the entire discussion “back” into the epoche. I define a chain of power in light of the preceding investigation. I...
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The Fundamental Cognitive Destiny of Interdisciplinarity
My purpose is to listen to what is sought to be said in the word interdisciplinarity, to carefully hear what “with” it, and “through” it, is trying...
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The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis in America and France: The Contribution of Jean Gayon
Jean Gayon’s encounters with American evolutionary biologists and philosophers of biology affected his project of justifying the Darwinian research...
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Cognitive Systems, Predictive Processing, and the Self
This essay presents the conditional probability of co-contribution account of the individuation of cognitive systems (CPC) and argues that CPC...
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The Cognitive Approach
This chapter presents some of the main theories and assumptions of cognitive science of religion (CSR). The main CSR theories and concepts discussed...
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Exploring the Cognitive Foundations of Managerial (Climate) Change Decisions
Climate change is a complex, multilevel challenge with implications of failure unimaginable for current and future generations. However, despite the...
