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Can video games be philosophical?
Some video games are said to be philosophical. Despite video games having received some attention in academic philosophy, that contention has not...
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Epigenetics
The mainstream biological theory in the second half of last century, represented by the iconic image of the double helix, implicated the sequence of...
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D’Arcy Thompson’s Morphological Transformations: Issues of Causality and Dimensionality
D’Arcy Thompson’s drawings showing coordinated differences between the shape of an individual of one species and the shape of an individual of...
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The Place of Percival’s Medical Ethics in the History of Medical Ethics
In this, the final, chapter I will attempt to place Thomas Percival Medical Ethics and the professional ethics in medicine that it expounds in the...
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Environmental Inheritance: Conceptual Ambiguities and Theoretical Issues
The concept of biological inheritance has recently been extended so as to integrate, among other elements, parts of organisms’ environments. The...
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Dynamical causes
Mechanistic explanations are often said to explain because they reveal the causal structure of the world. Conversely, dynamical models supposedly...
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Thinking embodiment with genetics: epigenetics and postgenomic biology in embodied cognition and enactivism
The role of the body in cognition is acknowledged across a variety of disciplines, even if the precise nature and scope of that contribution remain...
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Composite Agency
In this chapter we argue that the multiplicity of subagentsSubagents is a typical feature of agency which is necessary for a higher-level...
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Adding Agency to Tinbergen’s Four Questions
This year marks the 60th year anniversary of the publication of Niko Tinbergen’s “On aims and methods of ethology” which remains influential among...
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Environment as Abstraction
The concept of the environment appears to be indispensably involved in adaptive explanation. Quite what its role is, however, is a matter of some...
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Cognitive Niche Construction and Extragenetic Information: A Sense of Purposefulness in Evolution
My book Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning (
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Interspecific Cultural Studies and Numanities: The Comparative Study of Animal Traditions Beyond the Separation Between Humanities and Life Sciences
The introductory part of the chapter will display its whole purpose and topic. First of all, this section of the book aims to clarify the situation...
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The Fourth Perspective: Evolution and Organismal Agency
This chapter examines the deep connections between biological organization, agency, and evolution by natural selection. Using Griesemer’s account of...
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Personalized Treatments: Where Patient’s History and Biological Background Meet
Current studies on “personalized medicine” focus prevalently on network-based models of genome function. Since the eighties, the agenda of...
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C.H. Waddington’s differences with the creators of the modern evolutionary synthesis: a tale of two genes
In 2011, Peterson suggested that the main reason why C.H. Waddington was essentially ignored by the framers of the modern evolutionary synthesis in...
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Assessor Teaching and the Evolution of Human Morality
We consider the evolutionary scheme of morality proposed by Tomasello to defend the idea that the ability to orient the learning of offspring using...
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Perspectivism in current epigenetics
Discussions about perspectivism in the current philosophical literature often focus on questions concerning perspectival modeling or the...
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Who was J. B. S. Haldane?
Subramanian has produced a new biography of Haldane taking into account archival material that has only become public during the last decade. He has...