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Modeling mothering: the development of an experimental system in neurobiology
This article explores the development of a rat model of mother-infant relationships from its origins in the psychosomatic investigations of the...
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Rethinking Neuroscientific Methodology: Lived Experience in Behavioral Studies
The role of experience in the process of behavioral refinement has been undertheorized by philosophers of neuroscience and neuroscientists. By...
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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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The Likelihood of Actions and the Neurobiology of Virtues: Veto and Consent Power
An increasing number of studies indicate that virtues affect brain structure. These studies might shed new light on some neuroethical perspectives...
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Information Flow, Representation, and Awareness
I begin with a concept of representation based on the causal flow of the inherent information contained in physical objects and argue that it is...
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Connection experiments in neurobiology
Accounts of causal explanation are standard in philosophy of science. Less common are accounts of experimentation to investigate causal relations:...
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Re-humanizing Business: Some Lessons from Levinas and Their Implications
Emmanuel Levinas learned phenomenology from Edmund Husserl and developed it further in two steps. The first step was to replace what Husserl called...
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When Emotional Machines Are Intelligent Machines: Exploring the Tangled Knot of Affective Cognition with Robots
Research in neurobiology has provided evidence that emotions pervade human intelligence at many levels. However, “emotion” and “cognition” are still...
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Interdisciplinary model transfer and realism about physical analogy
Model transfer is the scientific practice of taking a model which was initially applied in one particular kind of target system in some particular...
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Science
Badiou’s truth of science begins with a prior, and conscious, omission; but this time, rather than neglecting the individual, Badiou has no...
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“It’s all about delivery”: researchers and health professionals’ views on the moral challenges of accessing neurobiological information in the context of psychosis
BackgroundThe convergence of neuroscience, genomics, and data science holds promise to unveil the neurobiology of psychosis and to produce new ways...
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J. Allan Hobson’s Dreamstage in Context
This chapter focuses on dream science and its relationship to scientific and popular discourses of neurobiology, including those related to the...
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A critical review of plant sentience: moving beyond traditional approaches
Are plants sentient? Several researchers argue that plants might be sentient. They do so on the grounds that plants exhibit cognitive behaviour...
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Is absence of evidence of pain ever evidence of absence?
Absence of evidence arguments are indispensable to comparative neurobiology. The absence in a given species of a homologous neural architecture...
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Your Brain Is Like a Computer: Function, Analogy, Simplification
The relationship between brain and computer is a perennial theme in theoretical neuroscience, but it has received relatively little attention in the...
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Our Humanity
Neurobiological research highlights the significance of our physical existence as feeling, conscious, and purposeful beings. Antonio Damasio...
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Biolinguistics and biological systems: a complex systems analysis of language
In their recent book, Ladyman and Wiesner (What is a complex system?, Yale University Press, 2020) delineate the bounds of the exciting...
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Better to be a Pig Dissatisfied than a Plant Satisfied
In the last two decades, there has been a blossoming literature aiming to counter the neglect of plant capacities. In their recent paper, Miguel...
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Critical and Pragmatic Naturalisms: Some Consequences of Direct Realism in John Dewey and Roy Wood Sellars
Some consequences of direct realism and William James’s philosophy of mind are considered in terms of American naturalism as seen in the debate...