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Extended animal cognition
According to the extended cognition thesis, an agent’s cognitive system can sometimes include extracerebral components amongst its physical...
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Towards ending the animal cognition war: a three-dimensional model of causal cognition
Debates in animal cognition are frequently polarized between the romantic view that some species have human-like causal understanding and the killjoy...
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Between social cognition and material engagement: the cooperative body hypothesis
In recent years, social cognition approaches to human evolution and Material Engagement Theory have offered new theoretical resources to advance our...
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Complementarity and Quantum Cognition
The idea of complementarity is one of the key concepts of quantum mechanics. Yet, the idea was originally developed in William James’ psychology of...
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What is cognitive about ‘plant cognition’?
There is growing evidence that plants possess abilities associated with cognition, such as decision-making, anticipation and learning. And yet, the...
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Eating and Cognition in Two Animals without Neurons: Sponges and Trichoplax
Eating is a fundamental behavior in which all organisms must engage in order to procure the material and energy from their environment that they need...
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Expanding Cognition: The Plasticity of Thought
This chapter surveys elements of non-human cognition to explore ways to think across the boundary that is usually asserted between living and...
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Afactivism about understanding cognition
Here, I take alethic views of understanding to be all views that hold that whether an explanation is true or false matters for whether that...
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Cognition and the Passions
Hobbes viewed people as just matter in motion and developed a thoroughly materialistic account of human psychology. In the first part of this chapter...
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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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Theoretical virtues in eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition
Within eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition we can distinguish at least three main theoretical positions: (i) Buffon’s mechanism, (ii)...
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Animal navigation without mental representation
Do animals require rich internal representations, such as cognitive maps, to navigate complex environments? Some researchers believe so, as they...
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The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation
This study adopted an empirical method to investigate lay people’s attitudes toward the bioethical issues of human-animal chimeric brains. The...
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Animal Faith and Its Object
Santayana claims that animal life inevitably requires the “posit” of an external and independent environment, but the claim is shown to be both a...
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Debates on humanization of human-animal brain chimeras – are we putting the cart before the horses?
Research on human-animal chimeras have elicited alarms and prompted debates. Those involving the generation of chimeric brains, in which human brain...
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Concrete Concepts in Basic Cognition
It is a well-established fact in representationalist cognitive science that concrete concepts influence human perception. In radical,...
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Embodied cognition and the imaging of bio-pathologies: the question of experiential primacy in detecting diagnostic phenomena
This article investigates the origins of the experiences involved in the diagnostics (detection and normative evaluation) of biological entities in...
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From Maximal Intersubjectivity to Objectivity: An Argument from the Development of Arithmetical Cognition
One main challenge of non-platonist philosophy of mathematics is to account for the apparent objectivity of mathematical knowledge. Cole and Feferman...
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Cognitive Twists: The Coevolution of Learning and Genes in Human Cognition
In this paper, we propose the expression cognitive twists for cognitive mechanisms that result from the coevolution of genes and learning. Evidence...