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DEINOTATON and POLEMOS: Human being and the search for the abode
(2017-05-11)
The goal of this Thesis is to present a philosophical interpretation of the idea/event of "Polemos". Focusing on the philosophical thought of Heraclitus and Martin Heidegger we will approach "Polemos", not only ontically, ...
Interactionism, Post-Interactionism, and Causal Complexity: Lessons From the Philosophy of Causation
(Frontiers Media, 2021-03-30)
In biology and philosophy of biology, discussing the notion of interaction leads to an examination of interactionism, which is, broadly speaking, the view that rejects gene-centrism and gene determinism and instead emphasizes ...
Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation
(Springer, 2021-12)
[EN]The new mechanists and the autonomy approach both aim to account for how biological phenomena are explained. One identifies appeals to how components of a mechanism are organized so that their activities produce a ...
Placebo from an enactive perspective
(Frontiers Media, 2021-06-02)
[EN] Due to their complexity and variability, placebo effects remain controversial. We suggest
this is also due to a set of problematic assumptions (dualism, reductionism, individualism,
passivity). We critically assess ...
Reflexiones sobre la transdisciplinariedad como principio científico y sus posibilidades de aportar a la resolución de un problema complejo en el sur del Ecuador: el caso de la explotación minera en la provincia de Zamora Chinchipe
(2018-11-23)
La tesis define a la transdisciplinariedad como el trabajo colaborativo que permite transgredir las barreras de las disciplinas científicas e integrar a otros actores provenientes de campos ajenos a la ciencia. Asume que ...
Riesgos, ética y valor ecológico de la biodiversidad: aplicación en la seguridad alimentaria.
(2021-07-26)
La presente tesis doctoral se desarrolló en un escenario donde la biodiversidad es el principal eje temático de la investigación vinculado al conocimiento del valor ecológico, los riesgos y la ética; así como el significado ...
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms
(Elsevier, 2022-06)
[EN] Organization figures centrally in the understanding of biological systems advanced by both new mechanists and proponents of the autonomy framework. The new mechanists focus on how components of mechanisms are organized ...
Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology
(Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 2021-03-15)
We advance an account that grounds cognition, specifically decision-making, in an activity all organisms as autonomous systems must perform to keep themselves viable-controlling their production mechanisms. Production ...
Visual Perception and the Emergence of Minimal Representation
(Frontiers Media, 2021-05-17)
There is a long-lasting quest of demarcating a minimally representational behavior. Based on neurophysiologically-informed behavioral studies, we argue in detail that one of the simplest cases of organismic behavior based ...