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Palaeontology in South America
Historiography has tended to connect the fossil animals discovered in the soil of the Americas with the evidence of the theory of evolution. This...
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Learning and expertise with scientific external representations: an embodied and extended cognition model
This paper takes an embodied and extended cognition perspective to ER integration – a cognitive process through which a learner integrates external...
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Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy
Can empathy be a tool for obtaining scientific knowledge or is it incompatible with the detached objectivity that is often seen as the ideal in...
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Technical Function, Use and Functioning in Simondon’s Ontogenetic Thought
One cannot approach Simondon’s thought of technology without placing it in the genetic and general ontology constructed by him in terms of...
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Two Kinds of Discovery: An Ontological Account
What can we discover? As the discussion in this Chapter is limited to ontological considerations, it does not deal with the discovery of new...
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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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Putting the ‘Experiment’ back into the ‘Thought Experiment’
Philosophers have debated at length the epistemological status of scientific thought experiments. I contend that the literature on this topic still...
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Naturalness in the Making: Classifying, Operationalizing, and Naturalizing Naturalness in Plant Morphology
What role does the concept of naturalness play in the development of scientific knowledge and understanding? Whether naturalness is taken to be an...
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Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building
This article addresses the contributions of the literature on the new mechanistic philosophy of science for the scientific practice of model building...
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In Favour of Dispositional Reality
In this chapter I will present an epistemology for Dispositional Reality. According to the neo-Quinean methodology proposed in earlier chapters, and...
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Entangling and Rupture of Body and Mind for Building of the Modern Science: Lessons from da Vinci and Descartes
This article develops some of the many ways in which Leonardo and Descartes, throughout the prolific period of human valuation from the fifteenth to...
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Rebuilding Management
This last chapter aims to rebuild management by starting with a paradox and an analysis. The paradox of excellence concerns the forgetfulness of...
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Exploration, Renaissance Concept of
Exploration influenced Renaissance philosophers indirectly rather than directly. Although few references to it are found in the writings of...
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Rorty, Nietzsche and Romanticism
This chapter describes the approach to romanticism which Richard Rorty develops in light of Isaiah Berlin’s work. It further shows how Nietzsche’s...
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Eco-Phenomenology as a Philosophy of Creativity and the Problem of Unity of Consciousness
The aim of this chapter is the interpretation of the Eco-Phenomenology of Life in the style of a creative philosophy. The paper integrates all the...
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Fictionalists Disregard the Dynamic Nature of Scientific Models
In the current epistemological debate scientific models are not only considered as useful devices for explaining facts or discovering new entities,...
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Signs of Interdisciplinarity in the Second Half of the XX Century and Prospects for the XXI Century
Interdisciplinarity is an unavoidable reality for anyone who wants to think out the current condition of scientific knowledge. Its emergence at the...
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The Philosophical Significance of Alan Mackay’s Theoretical Discovery of Quasicrystals
Dan Shechtman was the first to discover an actual quasicrystal (on April 8, 1982). As early as 1981, about 1 year before Shechtman’s discovery of an...