-
484This report highlights and explores five questions which arose from the workshop on perceptual learning and perceptual recognition at the University of Toronto, Mississauga on May 10th and 11th, 2012: 1. How should we demarcate perceptual learning from perceptual development? 2. What are the origins of multimodal associations? 3. Does our representation of time provide an amodal framework for multi-sensory integration? 4. What counts as cognitive penetration? 5. How can philosophers and psycholo…Read more
-
40N. R. Hanson and von Uexküll: A Biosemiotic and Evolutionary Account of TheoriesJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 52 (2): 247-261. 2021.This paper proposes a biosemiotic conception of theories, as non-intentional organic theories, which is based on an analysis and comparison of philosopher Norwood Russell Hanson’s account of theories and zoologist Jakob von Uexküll’s theory of organisms. It is argued that Hanson’s proposals about scientific theories and their relation to observation are semiotic in nature and that there exists a correspondence between Hanson’s depiction of the relationship between theories, observation, and real…Read more
-
45Function and Malfunction in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences and Social SciencesBiological Theory 13 (1): 39-43. 2018.
-
221Merging Biological Metaphors. Creativity, Darwinism and BiosemioticsBiosemiotics 10 (3): 369-378. 2017.Evolutionary adaptation has been suggested as the hallmark of life that best accounts for life’s creativity. However, current evolutionary approaches still fail to give an adequate account of it, even if they are able to explain both the origin of novelties and the proliferation of certain traits in a population. Although modern-synthesis Darwinism is today usually appraised as too narrow a position to cope with all the complexities of developmental and structural biology—not to say biosemiotic …Read more
David Suárez Pascal
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
-
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
Epistemology |
General Philosophy of Science |