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Biological Modularity and the Origins of Agency
From cells and multicellular bodies to offices, empires, or computer programs, complex entities around us usually consist of numerous largely...
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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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Why studying plant cognition is valuable, even if plants aren’t cognitive
Philosophers and scientists propose the idea that plants are cognitive, which has been met with criticisms. These criticisms focus on the fact that...
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Mencius’s Moral Psychology and Contemporary Cognitive Science
This chapter develops an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of Mencius’s moral psychology from the perspective of cognitive science. The...
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Conceptualizing Agency
Here we present a systematic analysis of the phenomenon Phenomena of semiotic agencyAgency Semiotic agency : a capacity for acting purposefully and...
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Performance and Agency in the Zhuangzi
The Zhuangzi offers intriguing stories of mastery. The masters’ actions—in carving wheels, swimming treacherous waters, catching cicadas and...
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Explanatory Diversity and Embodied Cognitive Science: Reflexivity Motivates Pluralism
Explanatory diversity is a salient feature of the sciences of the mind, where different projects focus on neural, psychological, cognitive, social or...
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Agency and Appearance: Reading the Face of Life
This chapter focuses on a single but essential building block of biological organisation, namely the way living organisms establish their specific...
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The Sense of Agency and the Epistemology of Thinking
This paper motivates a constraint on how to explain the “sense of agency” for conscious thinking. It argues that a prominent model fails to satisfy...
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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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First-person representations and responsible agency in AI
In this paper I investigate which of the main conditions proposed in the moral responsibility literature are the ones that spell trouble for the idea...
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Unchosen transformative experiences and the experience of agency
Unchosen transformative experiences—transformative experiences that are imposed upon an agent by external circumstances—present a fundamental problem...
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Curing Eco-Cognitive Situatedness
Recent research in the area of the so-called EEEE cognition (extended, embodied, embedded, enacted) has shown that human cognition and its...
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Proxy Assertions and Agency: The Case of Machine-Assertions
The world is witnessing a rise in speech-enabled devices serving as epistemic informants to their users. Some philosophers take the view that because...
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Well-Being, Mental Illness, Co-Production and Social Prescription: Social Constructionism, Relational Integrity, and Agency
As with Chap. 6 , this chapter starts with sociability as one of the six ontological features of the human...
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Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion: A Critical Perspective
The first thing that anyone learns about animism is that the word is most closely associated with the nineteenth-century anthropologist Sir Edward...
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Making it abstract, making it contestable: politicization at the intersection of political and cognitive science
The notion of politicization has been often assimilated to that of partisanship, especially in political and social sciences. However, these accounts...
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Catholic religious agency during the Covid-19 emergency: the issue of vaccines
The Catholic Church’s reflection on and assessment of the Covid-19 pandemic has developed in several areas. Inspired by the tradition of its social...