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Altruism in Cross-Cultural Perspective [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch
| Altruism in Cross-Cultural Perspective [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (189 p.) |
| Disciplina | 171.8 |
| Collana | International and Cultural Psychology |
| Soggetto topico |
Cross-cultural psychology
Biology—Philosophy Biological psychology Cross Cultural Psychology Philosophy of Biology Biological Psychology |
| ISBN | 1-4614-6952-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Altruism in Its Personal, Social, and Cultural Contexts: An Introduction -- Conceptual Aspects of Altruism in Cross-cultural Contexts.- Cross-cultural Variation in Altruism: Traditional Parental Manipulation and Ancestor-Descendant Conflict -- Guatemalan Adolescents’ Reports of Helping in Urban and Rural Mayan Communities -- Do We Really Like the Kind Girls and Animals?: Cross-cultural Analysis of Altruism in Folktales -- Cultural Values and Volunteering: A Cross-cultural Perspective -- Daoism and Altruism: A China-USA Perspective -- Altruism in Indian Religions: Embracing the Biosphere -- Altruism—Renouncing the Renunciant: A Discussion on Desire and Selflessness -- Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Is Altruism Integral? -- Altruism in Human Ritual -- Epilogue. To Give or Not to Give: Confessions of a Humanitarian Aid Worker. . |
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The American Experience in Bioethics [[electronic resource] /] / by Lisa Newton
| The American Experience in Bioethics [[electronic resource] /] / by Lisa Newton |
| Autore | Newton Lisa |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (87 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174.2 |
| Collana | SpringerBriefs in Ethics |
| Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Biology—Philosophy Philosophy of Biology |
| ISBN | 3-319-00363-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Chapter 1. Birth, Life and Death -- Chapter 2. The Cutting Edge -- Chapter 3. Allocation of Health Care Resources. |
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Biocommunication of Animals [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Guenther Witzany
| Biocommunication of Animals [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Guenther Witzany |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.44 |
| Soggetto topico |
Community ecology, Biotic
Sociolinguistics Animal physiology Biochemistry Behavioral sciences Biology—Philosophy Community & Population Ecology Animal Physiology Animal Biochemistry Behavioral Sciences Philosophy of Biology |
| ISBN | 94-007-7414-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface; Günther Witzany -- 1. Why Biocommunication of Animals?; Günther Witzany -- 2. Signs of Communication in Chimpanzees; Mary Lee A. Jensvold et al -- 3. African and Asian elephant vocal communication: A cross-species comparison; Angela Stoeger, Shermin de Silva -- 4. The information content of wolf (and dog) social communication; Tamás Faragó et al -- 5. Social origin of vocal communication in rodents; Stefan M. Brudzynski -- 6. Why the caged mouse sings: Studies of the mouse ultrasonic song system and vocal behavior; Gustavo Arriaga -- 7. Vibrational Communication: Spiders to Kangaroo Rats; Jan A. Randall -- 8. Communicative Coordination in Bees; Günther Witzany -- 9. Social association brings out the altruism in an ant; Kenji Hara -- 10. Termite communication during different behavioral activities; Ana Maria Costa-Leonardo, Ives Haifig -- 11. Crows and Crow Feeders: Observations on Interspecific Semiotics; John M. Marzluff, Marc L. Miller -- 12. Interspecies communication with Grey Parrots: A tool for examining cognitive processing; Irene M. Pepperberg -- 13. Singing in space and time: the biology of birdsong; Marc Naguib, Katharina Riebel -- 14. Chemical persuasion in salamanders; Lynne Houck -- 15. Chelonian vocal Communication; Camila R. Ferrara et al -- 16. Cetacean Acoustic Communication; Laela S. Sayigh -- 17. Communication in the ultraviolet: unravelling the secret language of fish; Ulrike E. Siebeck -- 18. Young squeaker catfish can already talk and listen to their conspecifics; Walter Lechner -- 19. Cognition and recognition in the cephalopod mollusc Octopus vulgaris: coordinating interaction with environment and conspecifics; Elena Tricarico et al -- 20. How Corals coordinate and organize: an ecosystemic analysis based fractal properties; Pierre Madl, Günther Witzany -- 21. Nematode Communication; Yen-Ping Hsueh et al -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910298303303321 |
| Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
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Biological Autonomy [[electronic resource] ] : A Philosophical and Theoretical Enquiry / / by Alvaro Moreno, Matteo Mossio
| Biological Autonomy [[electronic resource] ] : A Philosophical and Theoretical Enquiry / / by Alvaro Moreno, Matteo Mossio |
| Autore | Moreno Alvaro |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina | 574.01 |
| Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Systems biology Cognitive psychology Philosophy of Biology Systems Biology Cognitive Psychology |
| ISBN | 94-017-9837-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Life as autonomy -- I. Constraints and organisational closure -- II. Biological emergence and inter-levels causation -- III. Teleology, normativity, and functionality -- IV. Agency -- V. Evolution: the historical dimension of autonomy -- VI. Organisms and levels of autonomy -- VII. Cognition -- VIII. Opening conclusions -- Index. |
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| Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 | ||
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Biological Robustness [[electronic resource] ] : Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences / / edited by Marta Bertolaso, Silvia Caianiello, Emanuele Serrelli
| Biological Robustness [[electronic resource] ] : Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences / / edited by Marta Bertolaso, Silvia Caianiello, Emanuele Serrelli |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 258 p. 26 illus., 15 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 570.1 |
| Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Systems biology Biological systems Neurosciences Philosophy of nature Philosophy of Biology Systems Biology Philosophy of Nature |
| ISBN | 3-030-01198-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Is Biological Robustness Unique? -- 2. Robustness, Mechanism, and the Counterfactual use of Goal-directedness in Biology (Marco Buzzoni) -- 3. Difference (Alfredo Marcos) -- 4. Robustness and Autonomy (Alvaro Moreno) -- 5. Robustness as an Explanandum and Explanans in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology (Philippe Hunemann) -- 6. Issues in Developmental Robustness (Manfred D. Laubichler) -- 7. Physical Robustness and Biological Robustness: Dynamical Rearrangement of Symmetry and Minimum Stimulus (Giuseppe Vitiello) -- 8. News from the ‘Twilight Zone’: Protein Molecules Between the Crystal and the Fluid (Alessandro Giuliani) -- 9. Robustness and Emergent Dynamics in Noisy Biological Systems (Simonetta Filippi) -- 10. Robustness in Neurological Systems (Sandra D. Mitchell) -- 11. Robustness Notions and Physiological Adaptability: Philosophical and Biomedical Reflections on the Neurological Basis of Disorders (Raffaella Campaner) -- 12. Reconciling Variability with Robust Behavior at Single-neuron Level (Timothy O’Leary) -- 13. Functional Connectivity, Regulation, and SOM Interneurons Spontaneous Activity (Alison Barth) -- 14. Temporal Organization and Robustness in Neural Systems (Trey Boone) -- 15. Muscle Synergies: Concept, Principles, and Potential use in Neurorehabilitation Module (Emilio Bizzi) -- 16. Robustness of Musical Language: The Role of Motor Systems (Flavio Keller) -- 17. Conclusion - The Upcoming Role of Robustness in Biology. . |
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Biology and Subjectivity [[electronic resource] ] : Philosophical Contributions to Non-reductive Neuroscience / / edited by Miguel García-Valdecasas, José Ignacio Murillo, Nathaniel F. Barrett
| Biology and Subjectivity [[electronic resource] ] : Philosophical Contributions to Non-reductive Neuroscience / / edited by Miguel García-Valdecasas, José Ignacio Murillo, Nathaniel F. Barrett |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Disciplina | 100 |
| Collana | Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Epistemology Philosophy of Biology |
| ISBN | 3-319-30502-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Presentation / Introduction -- Chapter 2. Self-consciousness, personal identity and the challenge of neuroscience; D. Sturma -- Chapter 3. Mind vs Body and other false dilemmas of Post-Cartesian philosophy of mind; G. Klima -- Chapter 4. Body, time and subject; J. I. Murillo -- Chapter 5. Th. Buchheim, Remarks on the ontology of living beings and the causality of their behavior -- Chapter 6. Can you reduce life to its constitutive parts?; M. García-Valdecasas -- Chapter 7. The enactive theory of agency: Biological foundations, phenomenological constraints, and sociological implications; T. Froese -- Chapter 8. Mind and Value: A Pragmatist-Process Approach; N. Barrett -- Chapter 9. Ethics and normativity; J. Cottingham. |
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Biosemiotics and Evolution [[electronic resource] ] : The Natural Foundations of Meaning and Symbolism / / edited by Elena Pagni, Richard Theisen Simanke
| Biosemiotics and Evolution [[electronic resource] ] : The Natural Foundations of Meaning and Symbolism / / edited by Elena Pagni, Richard Theisen Simanke |
| Autore | Pagni Elena |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
| Disciplina | 930.1 |
| Collana | Interdisciplinary Evolution Research |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Biology - Philosophy Semiotics Social sciences Humanities Archaeology Evolutionary Biology Philosophy of Biology Humanities and Social Sciences Semiòtica Biologia |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN | 3-030-85265-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Part I: Life, meaning, and information -- Exploring the philosophical background and scientific foundations of naturalist approaches to meaning and symbolism -- Life sciences and the natural history of signs: can the origin of life processes coincide with the emergence of semiosis? -- A proposal for a biosemiotic approach to digitalization: literacy as modelling competence -- Threshold, meaning and life -- How information gets its meaning -- Part II: Semiosis and evolution -- Inclusive Fitness teleology and Darwinian explanatory pluralism: a theoretical sketch and an application to current controversies -- The origins and evolution of design: a stage-based model -- Biosemiotics and applied evolutionary epistemology: a comparison -- Extended synthesis and Jablonka and Lamb’s four-dimensional view of evolution -- Part III: Physics, medicine, and bioenergetics -- Physical intentionality: the phenomenological roots of biosemiotics -- Cancer and cell death: a biosemiotic perspective -- Biosemiotics and bioenergetics: two perspectives compared. |
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Biosignatures for Astrobiology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Barbara Cavalazzi, Frances Westall
| Biosignatures for Astrobiology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Barbara Cavalazzi, Frances Westall |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 pages) |
| Disciplina | 576.839 |
| Collana | Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics |
| Soggetto topico |
Astrobiology
Biochemistry Paleontology Microbiology Mineralogy Biology—Philosophy Biochemistry, general Paleontology Philosophy of Biology |
| ISBN | 3-319-96175-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Foreword -- Preface -- Chemical Biosignatures at the Origins -- Organic Matter in Interplanetary Dusts and Meteorites -- Biosignatures of Cellular Components and Metabolic Activity -- The Deep Subseafloor and Biosignatures -- A Systematic Way to Life Detection – Combining Field, Lab and Space Research in Low Earth Orbit -- Mineralogical Identification of Traces of Life -- Biosignatures in Deep Time -- The Search for Biosignatures in Martian Meteorite Allan Hills 84001 -- Role of Mineral Surfaces in Prebiotic Processes and Space-like Conditions -- Photochemistry and Photoreactions of Organic Molecules in Space -- Exoplanetary Biosignatures for Astrobiology -- The Enigma of Methane on Mars -- Detection of Biosignatures Using Raman Spectroscopy -- Searching for Signs of Life on Other Planets: Mars a Case Study -- The History and Philosophy of Biosignatures. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910337904003321 |
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Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience [[electronic resource] /] / edited by C.U.M. Smith, Harry Whitaker
| Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience [[electronic resource] /] / edited by C.U.M. Smith, Harry Whitaker |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8233 |
| Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Neuropsychology Neurobiology Philosophy of Biology |
| ISBN | 94-017-8774-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction; C.U.M.Smith and H.A. Whitaker -- Chapter 1. Beginnings: ventricular neuropsychology; C.U.M.Smith -- Chapter 2. Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas in the History of Mind and Brain Sciences; William Meehan -- Chapter 3. ‘Struck, As It Were, With Madness:’ The Phenomenology of Animal Spirits in the Neurology of Thomas Willis; Kathryn Tabb -- Chapter 4. Hooke’s mechanical mind; J.J. MacIntosh -- Chapter 5. Joseph Priestley: An instructive 18th century perspective on the mind-body problem; Alan Beretta -- Chapter 6. Reflections of western thinking on 19th C Ottoman thought: A critique of the 'hard-problem' by Spyridon Mavrogenis; George Anogianakis -- Chapter 7. George Henry Lewes (1817–1878): Embodied Cognition, Vitalism, and the Evolution of Symbolic Perception; Huw Price -- Chapter 8. Herbert Spencer: brain, mind and the ‘hard problem’; C.U.M.Smith -- Chapter 9. Problems of Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and America Neurology; J Wayne Lazar -- Chapter 10. Emil du Bois-Reymond’s Reflections on Consciousness ; Gabriel Finkelstein -- Chapter 11. William James and the “Theatre” of Consciousness; Stephanie L. Hawkins -- Chapter 12. The enigmatic deciphering of the neuronal code of word meaning; Andrew C. Papanicolaou -- Chapter 13. Alfred North Whitehead and the history of consciousness; Laura Hyatt Edwards -- Chapter 14. The ‘hard problem’ and the Cartesian strand in British neurophysiology: Huxley, Foster, Sherrington, Eccles; C.U.M.Smith -- Chapter 15. Is there a link between quantum mechanics and consciousness?; Barry K Ward -- Chapter 16. Consciousness and neuronal microtubules: the Penrose-Hameroff quantum model in retrospect; Eugenio Frixione -- Chapter 17. Zombie Dawn: Slavery and the Self in the Twenty-first Century; David Hawkes -- Chapter 18. Mind and Brain: Toward an Understanding of Dualism; Kristopher Phillips, Alan Beretta and Harry Whitaker. |
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Cellular-Molecular Mechanisms in Epigenetic Evolutionary Biology [[electronic resource] /] / by John Torday, William Miller Jr
| Cellular-Molecular Mechanisms in Epigenetic Evolutionary Biology [[electronic resource] /] / by John Torday, William Miller Jr |
| Autore | Torday John |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 214 p. 10 illus., 7 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 574.87328 |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolutionary biology
Biology—Philosophy Developmental biology Physiology Genetics Biochemistry Evolutionary Biology Philosophy of Biology Developmental Biology Genetics and Genomics Biochemistry, general |
| ISBN | 3-030-38133-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Darwin, the Modern Synthesis, and a New Biology -- Chapter 3. Cognition and the living condition -- Chapter 4. What is consciousness? An Evolutionary Perspective -- Chapter 5. Networking from the Cell to Quantum Mechanics as Consciousness -- Chapter 6. The Nature of information and its communication -- Chapter 7. The information cycle and biological information management -- Chapter 8. Communication and the accumulation of genetic information -- Chapter 9. Non-genic means of information reception and exchange -- Chapter 10. The primacy of the unicellular state -- Chapter 11. Phenotype, niche construction and natural cellular engineering -- Chapter 12. Holobionts -- Chapter 13. Four Domains: Cognition-based evolution -- Chapter 14. Reconciling physics and biology -- Chapter 15. What does this mean for evolution? -- Chapter 16. Conclusion: Cellular-molecular evolution in the 21st century. . |
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