Evolution of Primate Social Cognition [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Francesca De Petrillo |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
Disciplina | 599.80451 |
Collana | Interdisciplinary Evolution Research |
Soggetto topico |
Evolutionary biology
Neural networks (Computer science) Archaeology Biology—Philosophy Evolutionary Biology Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN | 3-319-93776-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part 1: Aspects of Primate Social Cognition -- 1. What did you get? What social learning, collaboration, prosocial behaviour, and inequity aversion tell us about primate social cognition -- 2. Affective stages, motivation, and prosocial behaviour in primates -- 3. Understanding empathy from the coordinative movement in humans and non-human primates -- 4. The cognitive implications of intentional communication: A multi-faceted mirror -- 5. A comparison of socio-communicative behaviour in chimpanzees and bonobos -- Part 2: Studying Primate Social Cognition: Theory, Observation, Experiments, and Modelling -- 6. Primate social cognition – evidence from primate field studies -- 7. Contribution of social network analysis and collective phenomena to understanding social complexity and cognition -- 8. Comparative economics: Using experimental economics paradigms to understand primate social decision-making -- 9. The special case of non-human primates in animal experimentation -- 10. Epigenetics and the evolution of human cognition -- 11. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: Cognitively different kinds of human? -- Part 3: Cultural Artifacts and Transmission in Primates -- 12. Recognition culture in primate tool use -- 13. Culture and selective social learning in wild and captive primates -- 14. The zone of latent solutions concept and its relationship to the classics -- 15. Minimal cognitive preconditions on the ratchet -- 18. Emulation, (over)imitation and social creation of cultural information -- 19. The Acquisition of Biface Knapping Skill in the Acheulean -- 20. Visuospatial integration: Palaeoanthropological and archaeological perspectives. |
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Experience and Beyond [[electronic resource] ] : The Outline of A Darwinian Metaphysics / / by Jan Faye |
Autore | Faye Jan |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 350 p.) |
Disciplina | 120 |
Soggetto topico |
Epistemology
Philosophy of nature Biology—Philosophy Philosophy of Nature Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN | 3-319-31077-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface and Introduction -- 1 Evolutionary Naturalism -- The manifest image -- The scientific image -- Kant’s metaphysical dualism -- Evolutionary epistemology -- 2 Evolution and Human Cognition -- The Darwinian legacy. Setting the legacy straight -- A fallacy of naturalization -- Intention and innate dispositions -- 3 Sensation, Perception, and Observation -- Perception as belief acquisition -- From perception to observation -- Theory-ladenness -- Instrumental observation -- Observability -- 4 Theory and Reality -- Forms of realism -- Conceptual frameworks and external commitments -- Theory realism -- The success argument -- Constructive empiricism -- Structural realism -- The failure of representationalism -- 5 Truth, Language, and Objectivity -- What is truth? -- Truth and meaning -- Non-realism concerning Truth -- A naturalized notion of truth -- Semantics and ontology -- 6 Abstraction and Reification -- Common sense and externality -- What makes an entity abstract? -- Abstract objects versus abstracted concepts -- Why did abstracted concepts evolve? -- 7 In Defence of Nominalism -- Concrete, artificial, and nominal particulars -- Particulars and universals -- Conceptualism -- 8 Space, Time, and Space-time -- The existence of Space -- The existence of Time -- Space-time substantivalism -- Space-time relationism -- Space-time as an abstracted concept -- Are space and time invented or discovered? -- 9 Causality and Counterfactuality -- The concept -- Regularity -- Modality -- 10 Human Evolution and Mathematical Physics -- Mathematics and representational knowledge -- Mathematics – the language of quantities -- Possible worlds, many worlds and multiverses -- The Copenhagen interpretation: a non-representational view -- 11 Conclusion -- Bibliography. |
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Explaining Photosynthesis [[electronic resource] ] : Models of Biochemical Mechanisms, 1840-1960 / / by Kärin Nickelsen |
Autore | Nickelsen Kärin |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
Disciplina | 572.4609 |
Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Plant biochemistry History Philosophy of Biology Plant Biochemistry History of Science |
ISBN | 94-017-9582-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1. In Pursuit of a Pathway (1843-1918) -- 2. Otto Warburg and the Turn to Manometry (1912-25) -- 3. Struggling with the Standard Model (1930-41) -- 4. The Maximum Quantum Yield Controversy (1937-55) -- 5. The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis (1937-1954) -- 6. Elucidating the Light Reactions (1950-1961) -- Epilogue. |
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Explanation in Biology [[electronic resource] ] : An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences / / by Pierre-Alain Braillard, Christophe Malaterre |
Autore | Braillard Pierre-Alain |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
Disciplina |
10
501 519 570.1 |
Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Philosophy and science Neural networks (Computer science) Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Science Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks |
ISBN | 94-017-9822-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. “Explanation in Biology: An Introduction” -- PART I – EXPLORING EXPLANATORY PLURALISM IN BIOLOGY -- Chapter 2. “Is There an Explanation for the Diversity of Explanations in Biological Sciences?” -- Chapter 3. “Explanation in Systems Biology: Is It All About Mechanisms?” -- Chapter 4. “Historical Contingency and the Explanation of Evolutionary Trends” -- Chapter 5. “Developmental Noise: Explaining the Specific Heterogeneity of Individual Organisms” -- PART II – MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION: APPLICATIONS AND EMENDATIONS -- Chapter 6. “Explaining in Contemporary Molecular Biology: Beyond Mechanisms” -- Chapter 7. “Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Limits of Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic Explanation” -- Chapter 8. “The Relevance of Irrelevance: Explanation in Systems Biology” -- Chapter 9. “Graph-Theoretic Perspectives on Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation” -- PART III – THE ROLE OF MATHEMATICS IN BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS -- Chapter 10. “Mathematical Explanation in Biology” -- Chapter 11. “Explanation and Organizing Principles in Systems Biology” -- Chapter 12. “Are dynamic mechanistic explanations still mechanistic?” -- PART IV – THE ROLE OF HEURISTICS IN BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS -- Chapter 13. “Heuristics, Descriptions, and the Scope of Mechanistic Explanation” -- Chapter 14. “Prospect and Limits of Explaining Biological Systems in Engineering Terms” -- Chapter 15. “From Mechanisms to Mathematical Models and Back to Mechanisms: Quantitative Mechanistic Explanations” -- PART V – NEW THEORIES OF EXPLANATION IN BIOLOGY AND ELSEWHERE -- Chapter 16. “Biological Explanations as Cursory Covering Law Explanations” -- Chapter 17. “Explaining Cell Development: Stem Cells and Reprogramming” -- Chapter 18. “Explaining Causal Selection with Explanatory Causal Economy : Biology and Beyond”. |
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Explanation in the Special Sciences [[electronic resource] ] : The Case of Biology and History / / edited by Marie I. Kaiser, Oliver R. Scholz, Daniel Plenge, Andreas Hüttemann |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Collana | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
History Philosophy and science Philosophy of Biology History of Science Philosophy of Science |
ISBN | 94-007-7563-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction – Points of Contact between Biology and History; Marie I. Kaiser and Daniel Plenge -- Part I. General Issues on Explanation -- 2. The Ontic Account of Scientific Explanation; Carl F. Craver -- Part II Explanation in the Biological Sciences -- 3. Causal Graphs and Biological Mechanisms; Alexander Gebharter and Marie I. Kaiser -- 4. Semiotic Explanation in the Biological Sciences; Ulrich Krohs -- 5. Mechanisms, Pathomechanisms, and Disease in Scientific Clinical Medicine; Gerhard Müller-Strahl -- 6. The Generalizations of Biology: Historical and Contingent?; Alexander Reutlinger -- 7. Evolutionary Explanations and the Role of Mechanisms; Gerhard Schurz -- Part III Explanation in the Historical Sciences -- 8. Explaining Roman History – A Case Study; Stephan Berry -- 9. Causal Explanation and Historical Meaning: How to Solve the Problem of the Specific Historical Relation between Events; Doris Gerber -- 10. Do Historians Study the Mechanisms of History? A Sketch; Daniel Plenge -- 11. Philosophy of History – Metaphysics and Epistemology; Oliver R. Scholz -- 12. Causal Explanations of Historical Trends; Derek D. Turner -- Part IV Bridging the Two Disciplines -- 13. Aspects of Human Historiographic Explanation: A View from the Philosophy of Science; Stuart Glennan -- 14. History and the Sciences; Philip Kitcher and Daniel Immerwahr -- 15 Explanation and Intervention in Coupled Human and Natural Systems; Daniel Steel -- 16. Biology and Natural History: What Makes the Difference; Aviezer Tucker. |
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From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity [[electronic resource] ] : Conceptual and Practical Challenges / / edited by Elena Casetta, Jorge Marques da Silva, Davide Vecchi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIV, 452 p. 36 illus.) |
Disciplina | 570.1 |
Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Biodiversity Geoecology Environmental geology Ecosystems Philosophy of Biology Geoecology/Natural Processes |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-030-10991-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I. Characterizing Biodiversity: Beyond the Species Approach -- Chapter 1. Beyond Biodiversity and Speciation – Disparity and Evolvability (Alessandro Minelli) -- Chapter 2. Can Plasticity Lead to the Emergence of Novel Units of Biodiversity? (Davide Vecchi, Rob Mills) -- Chapter 3. Between Explanans and Explanandum: Biodiversity and the Theoretical Unity of Ecology (Philippe Huneman) -- Chapter 4. Functional Biodiversity and the Idea that Organisms Fulfil Functional Roles within Ecological Units (Antoine C. Dussault) -- Chapter 5. The Importance of Scaling in Biodiversity (Luís Borda de Agua) -- Part II. Estimating Biodiversity: Limitation and Challenges -- Chapter 6. A Multidisciplinary Research to Understand and to Correct the Impacts of Species Concepts and Ignored Cryptic Species on Biodiversity Assessments (Anne Chenuil) -- Chapter 7. Statistical Measures of Biological Diversity: A Unified Framework and Discussion (Vincenzo Crupi) -- Chapter 8. Measuring Biodiversity from Traits to Landscapes (Cristina Branquino) -- Part III. Representing Biodiversity: Cognitive Representation and Representation by Specimen -- Chapter 9. The Representations of Biodiversity (Anouk Barberousse) -- Chapter 10. Natural History Collections as Models of the Diversity of the Natural World (Judite Alves) -- Chapter 11. News from the Battlefield: Bridging Epistemologies and Ontologies in the Field of Biodiversity (Marie Roué) -- Chapter 12. On the Impossibility and Dispensability of Defining ‘Biodiversity’ – and its Function as a Mediator Between Heterogeneous Fields (Georg Toepfer) -- Chapter 13. Value-Ladeness of Biodiversity. A Post-Normal Conceptual Analysis (Matthias Kaiser) -- Part IV. Conserving Biodiversity: From Science to Policies -- Chapter 14. Conservation Sovereignty and Biodiversity (Marku Oksanen & Timo Vuorisalo) -- Chapter 15. The Vagueness of “Biodiversity” and its Implications in Conservation Practice (Yves Meinard, Sylvain Coq, Bernhard Schmid) -- Chapter 16. The Role of Communities in Biodiversity Conservation. The Case of Multispecies Biofilms (Jorge Marques da Silva, Elena Casetta) -- Chapter 17. Modification of Habitats and Introduction of Exotic Species in Marine and Estuarine Environments: Always a Threat or Sometimes an Opportunity to Increase Biodiversity and to Enhance Biodiversity Conservation? (José Lino Costa, et al) -- Chapter 18. Ordinary Biodiversity. The Case of Food (Andrea Borghini). |
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From Life to Architecture, to Life [[electronic resource] /] / by Tim Ireland |
Autore | Ireland Tim |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 pages) |
Disciplina | 401.4 |
Collana | Biosemiotics |
Soggetto topico |
Semiotics
Architecture - History Social sciences Humanities Biology - Philosophy Life sciences Architectural History and Theory Humanities and Social Sciences Philosophy of Biology Life Sciences |
ISBN | 3-031-45925-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Architecture to Biosemiotics -- 2. The Essence of Architectural Creation -- 3. Architecture is like a Language -- Part 2. Biosemiotics to Architecture -- 4. Computing Life and Architecture -- 5. A Biosemiotic Conception of Space -- Part 3. Architecture to Life -- 6. Architecture and Life. |
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From Stars to Brains: Milestones in the Planetary Evolution of Life and Intelligence [[electronic resource] /] / by Andrew Y. Glikson |
Autore | Glikson Andrew Y |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXIV, 160 p. 82 illus., 79 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 570.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Geobiology Astrobiology Paleontology Evolutionary biology Philosophy of Biology Biogeosciences Paleontology Evolutionary Biology |
ISBN | 3-030-10603-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. The Building blocks of intelligence -- 2. Milestones in early evolution -- 3. From the genetic code to collective brains -- 4. Intelligent communities -- 5. Directional thought and evolution -- 6. Epilogue—From stars to brains. |
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Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Thomas Heams, Philippe Huneman, Guillaume Lecointre, Marc Silberstein |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (898 p.) |
Disciplina |
507.1
570 570.1 576.8 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolutionary biology
Biology—Philosophy Science education Evolutionary Biology Philosophy of Biology Science Education |
ISBN | 94-017-9014-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword; Jean Gayon -- Introduction; Thomas Heams, Philippe Huneman, Guillaume Lecointre, Marc Silberstein -- Part 1. Concepts: Processes -- Variation; Thomas Heams -- Heredity; Thomas Heams -- Selection; Philippe Huneman -- Adaptation; Philippe Grandcolas -- Function; Armand de Ricqlés -- Part 2. Concepts: Patterns -- Character; Véronique Barriel -- Species; Sarah Samadi and Anouk Barberousse -- Descent (filiation); Guillauem Lecointre -- Life; Stéphane Tirard -- Part 3. Darwinism “At Work” : Philosophy of Science -- Formalising Evolutionary Theory ; Anouk Barberousse -- Continuities and Discontinuities of Variation Mechanisms in On the Origin of Species; Pascal Charbonnat -- Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Philosophical Issues; Alan C. Love -- Phenotypic plasticity: From microevolution to macroevolution; Antonine Nicoglou -- Darwin and molecular biology; Michel Morange -- Systems biology and evolutionary biology; Pierre-Alain Braillard -- The (in)determinism of biological evolution; where does the stochastic character of evolutionary theory come from? Christophe Malaterre and Francesca Merlin -- Darwin and phylogenetics: past and present; Pascal Tassy -- Telling the story of life; on the use of narrative; Guillaume Lecointre -- Part 4. Darwinism “At Work” : From molecules to eco-systems -- What exactly is Synthetic Biology? Thomas Heams -- Evolutionary developmental biology and its contribution to a new synthetic theory; Guillaume Balavoine -- Behavior and Evolution: crossed glances; Henri Cap -- Sex and evolution: Pierre Henry Gouyon, Damien de Vienne, and Tatiana Girard -- Biological costs of a small stature for Homo sapiens females: new perspectives on stature sexual dimorphism; Priscille Touraille -- Ecology and evolution: Toward a multi-hierarchical connection; Julien DeLord -- The ecological niche: history and recent controversies; Arnaud Pocheville -- Darwin, Evolution, and Medicine: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; Pierre-Oliver Méthot -- Part 5. Evolution in Other Sciences -- Evolutionary algorithms; Marc Schoenauer -- Artificial evolution of autonomous robots and virtual creatures; Nicolas Bredeche -- Evolutionary Psychology, Adaptation and Design: Stephen M. Downes -- Externalist Evolutionary Cognitive Science; Pierre Poirier and Luc Faucher -- Human Language: An Evolutionary Anomaly; Jean-Louis Dessalles -- Evolution, Society, and Ethics: Social Darwinism versus Evolutionary Ethics; Christine Clavien -- Darwinian Morality: Moral Darwinism; Jérȏme Ravat -- Origins and evolution of religion from a Darwinian point of view: synthesis of different theories; Pierrick Bourrat -- Current Darwinism in Social Science; Christophe Heintz and Nicolas Claidiére -- Evolutionary economics: a specific form of evolution? Eva Debray -- Phylo-Linguistics: Enacting Darwin’s Linguistic Image; Mahé Ben Hamed -- Biological functions and semantic content: the teleosemantics; Franҫoise Longy -- Part 6. About Anti-Darwinism -- Evolutionism(s) and creationism(s); Olivier Brosseau and Marc Silberstein -- The theory of evolution in secondary schools: some teaching issues; Corine Fortin. |
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Die Herleitung biologischer Hauptsätze [[electronic resource] /] / von Vollrath Hopp |
Autore | Hopp Vollrath |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer Spektrum, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 85 S. 23 Abb.) |
Disciplina | 540 |
Soggetto topico |
Chemistry
Biology—Philosophy Evolutionary biology Chemistry/Food Science, general Philosophy of Biology Evolutionary Biology |
ISBN | 3-662-54463-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Wie können biologische Hauptsätze formuliert werden [E. biological principles – how can these be formulated? -- 2. Die Biologischen Hauptsätze – ihre Herleitung [E. The biological principles – a derivation] -- 3. Anhang – Erläuterungen und Definitionen [E. appendix – explanations and definitions] -- 4. Literaturhinweise [E. references] -- 5. An English summary – Biological principles – how can these be formulated?. |
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