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4Origins of mind (edited book)Springer. 2012.The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdis…Read more
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4Galileo's falling bodiesIn Bruce Michael & Barbone Steven (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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18Putnam's no miracles argumentIn Bruce Michael & Barbone Steven (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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22Sir Karl Popper's demarcation argumentIn Bruce Michael & Barbone Steven (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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42Kuhn's incommensurability argumentsIn Bruce Michael & Barbone Steven (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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1Introduction : exploring the origins of mindedness in natureIn Liz Stillwaggon Swan (ed.), Origins of Mind, Springer Verlag. pp. 1--17. 2012.
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24Yoga - Philosophy for Everyone: Bending Mind and Body (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2011._Stimulates thoughts and expands awareness of the philosophical dimensions of yoga in its many forms and practices_ _Yoga — Philosophy for Everyone_ presents a wide array of perspectives by people whose lives have been touched by yoga. Addressing myriad aspects of yoga's divergent paths, topics include body image for men and women; the religious and spiritual aspects of yoga; and issues relating to ethics, personal growth, and the teaching of yoga. Written by philosophers and non-philosophers al…Read more
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4Kuhn's Incommensurability ArgumentsIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Rationality and Paradigm Shifts Incommensurable Paradigms and Holism.
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3Putnam's no Miracles ArgumentIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.
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2Sir Karl Popper's Demarcation ArgumentIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.
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2Galileo's Falling BodiesIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.
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Introduction : exploring the origins of mindedness in natureIn Liz Stillwaggon Swan (ed.), Origins of mind, Springer. 2012.
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27Timothy McGrew, Marc Alspector‐Kelly, and Fritz Allhoff , Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology. West Sussex: Blackwell , 660 pp., $99.95 (review)Philosophy of Science 77 (1): 141-143. 2010.
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3Yoga - Philosophy for Everyone: Bending Mind and BodyWiley-Blackwell. 2011.Stimulates thoughts and expands awareness of the philosophical dimensions of yoga in its many forms and practices Yoga — Philosophy for Everyone presents a wide array of perspectives by people whose lives have been touched by yoga. Addressing myriad aspects of yoga's divergent paths, topics include body image for men and women; the religious and spiritual aspects of yoga; and issues relating to ethics, personal growth, and the teaching of yoga. Written by philosophers and non-philosophers alike,…Read more
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31Biosymbols: Symbols in Life and MindBiosemiotics 3 (1): 17-31. 2010.The strong continuity thesis postulates that the properties of mind are an enriched version of the properties of life, and thus that life and mind differ in degree and not kind. A philosophical problem for this view is the ostensive discontinuity between humans and other animals in virtue of our use of symbols—particularly the presumption that the symbolic nature of human cognition bears no relation to the basic properties of life. In this paper, we make the case that a genuine account of strong…Read more
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59Karl Popper, Forensic Science, and Nested CodesBiosemiotics 7 (2): 309-319. 2014.This paper utilizes the framework of Karl Popper’s 3-world ontology to make the case that forensic science is a specialized coding system that establishes meaningful connections between the world of biology and the world of human society . Forensic science is a cross-disciplinary endeavor that uses scientific methods to determine what transpired in a crime so the legal system can determine how to prosecute the offender. On a Popperian analysis of forensic science, world 1 consists of evidence ga…Read more
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79Synthesizing insight: Artificial life as thought experimentation in biologyBiology and Philosophy 24 (5): 687-701. 2009.What is artificial life? Much has been said about this interesting collection of efforts to artificially simulate and synthesize lifelike behavior and processes, yet we are far from having a robust philosophical understanding of just what Alifers are doing and why it ought to interest philosophers of science, and philosophers of biology in particular. In this paper, I first provide three introductory examples from the particular subset of artificial life I focus on, known as ‘soft Alife’ (s-Alif…Read more
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147Digital immortality: Self or 0010110?International Journal of Machine Consciousness 4 (01): 245-256. 2012.
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9Masters of a Better Possible RealityIn William Irwin (ed.), Black Sabbath and Philosophy: Mastering Reality, Wiley. 2013.
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335A biosemiotic analysis of BrailleBiosemiotics 4 (1): 25-38. 2011.Abstract A unique aspect of human communication is the utilization of sets of well- delineated entities, the morphology of which is used to encode the letters of the alphabet. In this paper, we focus on Braille as an exemplar of this phenomenon. We take a Braille cell to be a physical artifact of the human environment, into the structure of which is encoded a representation of a letter of the alphabet. The specific issue we address in this paper concerns an examination of how the code that is em…Read more
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30The Brain and the Meaning of LifeInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25 (3). 2011.International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 297-299, September 2011
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413How Is Meaning Grounded in the Organism?Biosemiotics 3 (2): 131-146. 2010.In this paper we address the interrelated questions of why and how certain features of an organism’s environment become meaningful to it. We make the case that knowing the biology is essential to understanding the foundation of meaning-making in organisms. We employ Miguel Nicolelis et al’s seminal research on the mammalian somatosensory system to enrich our own concept of brain-objects as the neurobiological intermediary between the environment and the consequent organismic behavior. In the fin…Read more
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17Origins of Mind (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2012.In addition to recognizing the connection between aesthetic judgment and mindfulness to better understand the continuity between humans and nonhuman animals, a shift of the discussion of the origins of mind to the origins of mindfulness ...
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