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Stream of Consciousness: Some Propositions and Reflections
This short communication explores the idea of “stream of consciousness” and considers some of the ways in which scientific writing relies – even or...
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Philosophy of Social Cognition
This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the main issues in contemporary philosophy of social cognition. It...
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Joint Attention in Team Sport
This paper explores how the phenomenon of Joint Attention (JA) drives certain core features of team sport and how sport illuminates the nature of JA....
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Augmented Reality, Augmented Epistemology, and the Real-World Web
Augmented reality (AR) technologies function to ‘augment’ normal perception by superimposing virtual objects onto an agent’s visual field. The...
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Placing Mind in the Natural World: In Search of an Alternative Naturalism
In contemporary philosophy, various attempts have been made in relation to placing our minds or mental states in the natural world or nature. In this...
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Rescuing a traditional argument for internalism
Early moderns such as Locke and Descartes thought we could guarantee the justification of our beliefs, even in worlds most hostile to their truth, if...
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Phos, Our Other Greek Name
It is perhaps time to revivify our other name in Greek: phos . For although the Greeks named us anthrôpos , they also called us phos . And the Greeks...
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Altruistic Concern for the Other and the Development of the Virtue of Humility
Humility is often defined by what it is not; as the antithesis to various vices such as pride, arrogance, conceit, or vanity. This negative...
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Can You Hear Nature Sing? Enacting the Syilx Ethical Practice of Nʕawqnwixʷ to Reconstruct the Relationships Between Humans and Nature
This study sheds new insight on how historically oppressed and marginalized actors are able to pursue environmental sustainability based on...
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The Evolutionary Archetypes: Values and Needs
This chapter analyzes in both languages the archetypal motives that human minds share in common, and how they pervade and can affect, even in...
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Comments on Bhushan & Garfield, Minds Without Fear
The review essay concerns the book: Bhushan and Garfield, Minds Without Fear . The book, in my view, accomplishes well the task of providing a...
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A Cultural Species and its Cognitive Phenotypes: Implications for Philosophy
After introducing the new field of cultural evolution, we review a growing body of empirical evidence suggesting that culture shapes what people...
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Beyond the Brain How the Mind and the Body Shape Each Other
Different from traditional research on the mind-body problem often discussed from an epistemological viewpoint, which assumes that mental processes...
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How do moral theories stand to each other?
Moral theories, such as the variations on virtue ethics, deontological ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism, are expected – inter alia – to...
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Moral Reasons Not to Posit Extended Cognitive Systems: a Reply to Farina and Lavazza
Given the metaphysical and explanatory stalemate between Embedded (EMB) and Extended (EXT) cognition, different authors proposed moral arguments to...
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Colorism in the Indian subcontinent—insights through situated affectivity
Consistent discriminatory practices associated with dark and black skin color underpin the persistence of colorism and racism in the Indian...
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Probability. Books That Smell of Other Books
In this chapter, Probability. Books that smell of other books, I deal with the node of Probability by means of an analysis of two of Ian Hacking’s...
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“Other minds than ours”: a controversial discussion on the limits and possibilities of comparative psychology in the light of C. Lloyd Morgan’s work
C. Lloyd Morgan is mostly known for Morgan’s canon (An introduction to comparative psychology, Walter Scott, Limited, London,
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Excerpts from Washburn’s The Evidence of Mind
This chapter includes Margaret Floy Washburn’s discussion of the basis of inferences about animal minds and her discussion of what it is like to be...