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    Hemispheric Asymmetry in Attention and its Impact on Our Consciousness: A Review with Reference to Altered Conscioussness in Right Hemisphere Damaged Subjects
    with D. Badgio, J. Ptacek, A. Biswas, M. Ghosal, and G. Chatterjee
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 24 (7-8): 51-78. 2017.
    Attention and consciousness are two distinct neural processes which are intricately intertwined. However, there is asymmetry in the distribution of attentional abilities across the two hemispheres. The right hemisphere is asserted to be dominant for attentional abilities. Research suggests that the ventral frontoparietal cortex of the right hemisphere is dominant for exogenous attentional abilities, attention is phylogenetically more primitive than endogenous attention, and, compared to the left…Read more
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    How Stone Tools Shaped Us: Post-Phenomenology and Material Engagement Theory
    Philosophy and Technology 32 (2): 243-264. 2019.
    The domain of early hominin stone tool making and tool using abilities has received little scholarly attention in mainstream philosophy of technology. This is despite the fact that archeological evidence of stone tools is widely seen today as a crucial source of information about the evolution of human cognition. There is a considerable archeological literature on the cognitive dimensions of specific hominin technical activities. However, within archeology and the study of human evolution the st…Read more
  • Scientific Discovery: A Re-examination
    Indian Philosophical Quarterly 33 (3/4): 309. 2006.
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    A Philosophical Inquiry into the Character of Material Artifacts
    Philosophia Scientiae 18 153-156. 2014.
    Ce texte vise à montrer les ressources variées de la thèse des trois mondes de Karl Popper dans l’analyse des questions liées au statut ontologique des artefacts matériels. Bien qu’elle ait été discutée depuis des années, et qu’elle ait fait l’objet de nombreuses critiques, on n’a presque pas remarqué que la thèse de Popper fournit d’excellentes idées pour la description philosophique des artefacts. Ce texte comprend deux sections. Dans la première, on donne un exposé critique des thèses de Popp…Read more