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Interactionism, Post-Interactionism, and Causal Complexity: Lessons From the Philosophy of Causation
(Frontiers Media, 2021-03-30)
In biology and philosophy of biology, discussing the notion of interaction leads to an examination of interactionism, which is, broadly speaking, the view that rejects gene-centrism and gene determinism and instead emphasizes ...
Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation
(Springer, 2021-12)
[EN]The new mechanists and the autonomy approach both aim to account for how biological phenomena are explained. One identifies appeals to how components of a mechanism are organized so that their activities produce a ...
Placebo from an enactive perspective
(Frontiers Media, 2021-06-02)
[EN] Due to their complexity and variability, placebo effects remain controversial. We suggest
this is also due to a set of problematic assumptions (dualism, reductionism, individualism,
passivity). We critically assess ...
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms
(Elsevier, 2022-06)
[EN] Organization figures centrally in the understanding of biological systems advanced by both new mechanists and proponents of the autonomy framework. The new mechanists focus on how components of mechanisms are organized ...
Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology
(Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 2021-03-15)
We advance an account that grounds cognition, specifically decision-making, in an activity all organisms as autonomous systems must perform to keep themselves viable-controlling their production mechanisms. Production ...
Visual Perception and the Emergence of Minimal Representation
(Frontiers Media, 2021-05-17)
There is a long-lasting quest of demarcating a minimally representational behavior. Based on neurophysiologically-informed behavioral studies, we argue in detail that one of the simplest cases of organismic behavior based ...
¿A quién pertenece la naturaleza? Sintiencia, ética ambiental e intervención en la naturaleza
(Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de Antioquia., 2022)
[ES] ¿A quién pertenece la naturaleza? La pregunta podría ser menos importante que la cuestión de la reducción del sufrimiento en ella. Da igual si la naturaleza no pertenece a nadie (o nos pertenece a todos) o si pertenece ...
The Ecological Literacies of St. Hildegard of Bingen
(MDPI, 2021-11-29)
Literacy is, literally, a question not of education but of the letter. More than that, it is the question of the letter in the two senses the word has in English: as a symbol of the alphabet and a piece of correspondence. ...
Embodiment, tailoring, and trust are important for co-construction of meaning in physiotherapy after stroke: A qualitative study.
(Wiley, 2022-07)
Background and Purpose: Physiotherapy, with an emphasis on high intensity, individually tailored, and person-centered treatment, is an effective route for recovery after a stroke. No single approach, however, has been ...
La crisis de la conciencia europea: el siglo XVII y el origen de nuestro mundo
(Arabako Foru Aldundia. Kultura eta Kirol Saila / Diputación Foral de Álava. Departamento de Cultura y Deporte, 2021)