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The Right to be an Exception to Predictions: a Moral Defense of Diversity in Recommendation Systems
Recommendation systems (RSs) predict what the user likes and recommend it to them. While at the onset of RSs, the latter was designed to maximize the...
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Anthropology
In the Anthropocene, humans have become increasingly uncertain about who they are and how they should view themselves. The future of the planet,...
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Gongsheng in Ecological Anthropology
Ecological anthropology is a science that uses the theories and methods of anthropology to study the relations between culture, society, and the...
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Philosophical Consequences
The impact of the relationship between the theory of systemsTheory of systems and the theory of complexityTheory of complexity on some of the general...
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Prague Structuralism and the Poetic Function
Structuralism has impacted the humanities and sciences, including biology. A limitation of structuralist models is their static nature. Saussure’s...
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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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Medicine as science. Systematicity and demarcation
While medicine is solidly grounded on scientific areas such as biology and chemistry, some argue that it is in its essence not a science at all. With...
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Affectivity in mental disorders: an enactive-simondonian approach
Several enactive-phenomenological perspectives have pointed to affectivity as a central aspect of mental disorders. Indeed, from an enactive...
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Physics, Determinism, and the Brain
This chapter responds to claims that causal closure of the underlying microphysics determines brain outcomes as a matter of principle, even if we...
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Near-death experiences: feasibility and advantages of the mechanistic explanation
The new mechanistic philosophy seeks to identify and explain the mechanisms of various phenomena, including their overall organization and the...
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Sex by design: a new account of the animal sexes
What is it for an animal to be female, or male? An emerging consensus among philosophers of biology is that sex is grounded in some manner or another...
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The Debate: Cuvier and Geoffroy
This chapter outlines pre-Darwinian ideas in early nineteenth-century French biology. In an epistemic shift, a natural history based on continuity...
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The Radical Naturalism of Naturalistic Philosophy of Science
Naturalism in the philosophy of science has proceeded differently than the familiar forms of meta-philosophical naturalism in other sub-fields,...
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Frege’s Paradox and the Serial Form
At the beginning of Logic of Sense, Deleuze defines paradox as “the affirmation of both senses or directions at once” (“le paradoxe est l’affirmation...
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Darwinian/Hennigian Systematics and Evo-Devo: The Missed Rendez-Vous
EvoDevo called homeotic genes “architect genes” because they “control” “body plans”. Using such ordering causal factors, mainstream EvoDevo stayed...
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Empirical Concepts: Their Meaning and its Emergence
This article presents a detailed, novel account of the emergence of (the meaning of) empirical concepts. Acquiring experience and empirical concepts...
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Hierarchical Emergent Ontology (HEO)
This chapter is devoted to formulating a universal principle of emergence (UPE) within the hierarchical emergent ontology (HEO) framework and testing...
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Phenomenology and the Species Problem: The Need for Dialogue Between Traditions
This chapter explores the relevance of insights drawn from the Continental tradition of PhenomenologyPhenomenology for the solution of the...
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The Narrative Self and the Minimal Self
The aim of the chapter is to provide a detailed introduction to the multidimensional analysis of the self. The chapter examines the contrast between...
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Revisiting N.I. Vavilov’s “The Law of Homologous Series in Variation” (1922)
We discuss N. I. Vavilov’s 1922 landmark publication, “The Law of Homologous Series in Variation,” and highlight its salient points. Vavilov drew...
