Life and Mind

Theoretical and Applied Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences
Herausgegeben:Martín-Villuendas, Mariano; Gefaell, Juan; Cuevas-Badallo, Ana

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent times, the philosophy of science has been reinvigorated by insights from the biological and cognitive sciences. These disciplines have provided not only new perspectives to approach traditional philosophical problems but have also opened the way to new conceptual and methodological questions that call for new and innovative solutions.

This book brings together some of the main debates that have structured in the last years the fields of philosophy of biology and cognitive sciences. It is organized around 11 chapters distributed in two parts: one devoted to the philosophy of biology, and the other to the cognitive sciences. These ideas were originally presented at the 11th edition of the International Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science (PBCS-XI) workshop held in 2022 in Salamanca, Spain.
Part I of the volume is devoted to topics related to the philosophy of biology and includes hot topics such as "biological functions", "modelization", "pain medicine", or "organicism".Part II is devoted to debates in the cognitive sciences and includes issues related to "ecological psychology", "enactivism", "FEP" or "animal cognition".
Considering the diversity of the topics covered in this volume, the book is purposely conceived to serve as an updated introduction to the fields of the philosophy of biology and cognitive sciences for those researchers interested in having a panoramic view of these two areas of inquiry. But not only that, the detailed and scholarly coverage of the topics included renders this book appealing to a much more specialized audience interested in particular aspects of each of the debates already mentioned.

Produktdetails

• Interdisciplinary Evolution Research 10
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-70846-6
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9783031708466
• ISBN-10: 3031708466
• Artikelnr.: 71282907

Autorenporträt

Mariano Martín Villuendas is a predoctoral fellow (Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León-Fondo Social Europeo) at the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Aesthetics (University of Salamanca) and researcher at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (ECyT). Mariano has been a visiting researcher at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and at the UNED (Spain). His research interests are related to the General Philosophy of Science, Pragmatism and Cancer Research. Juan Gefaell is a predoctoral fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology (University of Vigo). He has also been a visiting researcher at Lund University (Sweden). Juan conducts research in evolutionary ecology and has published papers on various topics related to the evolution of color polymorphism and local adaptations in the marine gastropod Littorina saxatilis. In addition to that, he also works on science education and the philosophy of science. Ana Cuevas Badallo is associated professor at the Philosophy department, and Researcher at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (Ecyt) at the University of Salamanca (Spain). She received her PhD in Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country. Nowadays she is the head of the Philosophy, Logic, and Aesthetic Department of the University of Salamanca. She published on technological sciences epistemology, technological bio-artefacts and public participation in science and technology. She coordinated several research projects on Public Understanding of Science focusing on biotechnology and public participation in scientific and technological controversies. She has been visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki (Finland), the University of Delaware (USA), the University of Delft (The Netherlands) and the University of Valparaiso (Chile). Author of several articles on epistemology, ontology and axiology of technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Part I: Theoretical and Applied Issues in Current Philosophy of Biology.- A Case for Epistemology and Context Driven Accounts of Cognitive and Biological Functions.- The Limits of Reductionism in the Scientific Controversies of Pain.- Between Armaments and Ornaments, Weak and Strong Emergent Patterns in Virtual and Real Cellular Automata.- The Pain System is Not a Bodily Disturbance Detector.- Contingent Notions in Molecular Scenario Stochasticity as Insufficiency of Causal Dependence (ICD).- Part II: Theoretical and Applied Issues in Current Cognitive Sciences.- Radicalizing Mindshaping, Towards an Ecological Approach to Social Cognition.- Where There is Life There is Mind And Free Energy Minimisation?.- On the Boundaries Between Classical Demarcations and Transdiagnostic Approaches to Psychopathology The Case of Meaning in Life and the Lack Thereof.- Is Ecological Neuroscience Possible?.- The Post-Cognitivist Turn in Sensory Substitution.- In Defense of Instinct Concepts.