Overview
- Explores philosophical issues at the crossroads of cognitive science and biology
- Mirrors the diversity of current research in the philosophy of biology and cognitive science
- A valuable ressource for philosophers, biologists and cognitive scientists
Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Evolution Research (IDER, volume 8)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Embodiment, Perception and Cognition
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Evolution, Language and Culture
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Gene and Genotype Metaphysics
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Teleology in Biology and Cognitive Sciences
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About this book
Four conceptual vectors give this volume its coherence:
- Animal and human cognition: With respect to animal cognition, this volume focuses on self-awareness and methodological flaws in the science of animal consciousness. Regarding human cognition, the authors of this volume address various aspects of so-called 4E cognition.
- Genetics: The role of genes in the development of mind and life has always been philosophically controversial. In this volume, the authors address the possibility of considering post-genomic genes as natural kinds and the proper analysis of the concept of genotype.
- Teleology: This volume addresses issues of evolutionary causality and teleosemantics, as well as questions relating to biological teleology and regulation.
- Evolution: Evolution exemplifies better than any other concept the convergence point between philosophy, biology and cognitive sciences. Among other things, the volume deals with the origin of novelties in evolutionary processes from various viewpoints (e.g., cultural evolution and developmental plasticity).
Despite their disparity, all these topics belong to a common naturalistic framework. By presenting them in a single volume, the editors want to emphasize the need to always conduct philosophical research on mind and life with tangential domains in mind.
This book is a valuable resource for students and researchers of philosophy with a special interest in life, cognition, and evolution, as well as for biologists and cognitive scientists.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mariano Sanjuán
Mariano Sanjuán is Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science of the Autonomous University of Madrid with a thesis on the recent history of scientific pluralism. He graduated in Philosophy from the University of Zaragoza and San Diego State University and holdsa Master’s degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the University of Salamanca. His research focuses on the history of philosophy of science with a special emphasis on the so-called Stanford School. Other fields of interest are the perspectivist approach in the Scientific Realism debate, the History and Philosophy of Psychiatry and the History of Biological Sciences in the XVII century. He has published at numerous top-ranked Spanish Philosophy journals as well as international such as European Journal for Philosophy of Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life and Mind
Book Subtitle: New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences
Editors: José Manuel Viejo, Mariano Sanjuán
Series Title: Interdisciplinary Evolution Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30304-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exlusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30303-6Published: 13 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30306-7Due: 14 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30304-3Published: 12 June 2023
Series ISSN: 2199-3068
Series E-ISSN: 2199-3076
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 329
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy of Biology, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Developmental Biology