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- Learning and the Evolution of Conscious Agents.Eva Jablonka &Simona Ginsburg -2022 -Biosemiotics 15 (3):401-437.The scientific study of consciousness or subjective experiencing is a rapidly expanding research program engaging philosophers of mind, psychologists, cognitive scientists, neurobiologists, evolutionary biologists and biosemioticians. Here we outline an evolutionary approach that we have developed over the last two decades, focusing on the evolutionary transition from non-conscious to minimally conscious, subjectively experiencing organisms. We propose that the evolution of subjective experiencing was driven by the evolution of learning and we identify an open-ended, representational, generative and recursive form of associative (...) learning, which we call Unlimited Associative Learning (UAL), as an evolutionary transition marker of minimal consciousness. This evolutionary marker provides evidence that the evolutionary transition to consciousness has gone to completion and allows reverse-engineering from this learning capacity to the system that enables it – making possible the construction of a toy model of UAL. The model allows us to identify some of the key processes and structures that constitute minimal consciousness, points its taxonomic distribution and the ecological context in which it first emerged, highlights its function and suggests a framework for exploring developmental and evolutionary modifications of consciousness. We point to ways of experimentally testing the relationship between UAL and consciousness in human and in non-human animals and discuss the theoretical and ethical implications of our approach. The framework we offer allows the exploration of the evolutionary changes in agency, value systems, selective processes and goals that were involved in the transition to subjective experiencing from a perspective that resonates with the approaches of bio-semioticians. (shrink)
- Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.Eva Jablonka &Marion J. Lamb -2020 - Cambridge University Press.Current knowledge of the genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic systems of inheritance requires a revision and extension of the mid-twentieth-century, gene-based, 'Modern Synthesis' version of Darwinian evolutionary theory. We present the case for this by first outlining the history that led to the neo-Darwinian view of evolution. In the second section we describe and compare different types of inheritance, and in the third discuss the implications of a broad view of heredity for various aspects of evolutionary theory. We end with (...) an examination of the philosophical and conceptual ramifications of evolutionary thinking that incorporates multiple inheritance systems. (shrink)No categories
- Sentience as a System Property: Learning Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness.Eva Jablonka &Simona Ginsburg -2023 -Biological Theory 18 (3):191-196.Veit suggests that the challenge of coordinating movement in multicellular organisms led to the evolution of a prioritizing value system, which rendered organisms complex enough to be sentient and drove the Cambrian explosion, while the absence of this evaluation system led to the demise of Ediacaran animals. In this commentary we criticize Veit’s terminology and evolutionary proposals, arguing that his terminology and evolutionary scenarios are problematic, and put forward alternative proposals. We suggest that sentience is a system property, and that (...) the evolution of sentience was the outcome of the evolution of open-ended associative learning, which included the coevolution of sensory, motor, memory, and value subsystems. We suggest that these coevolutionary system dynamics were a factor in the Cambrian explosion and contributed to the extinction of the Ediacaran biota. (shrink)
- The Self - Ancient and Modern.Phillip Mitsis,Eva Cantarella,Alfred L. Ivry &Ulric Neisser -2000 - New York University Press.Export citation
Bookmark - Signs of Consciousness?Eva Jablonka -2021 -Biosemiotics 14 (1):25-29.In this commentary I expand on the first of Noble’s illusions, the selection metaphor. Building on my work with Simona Ginsburg on the evolution of minimal consciousness, I argue that the existence of some complex sensory and motor patterns in the living world can be accounted for only through the evolution of conscious choice.
- Logics of Political Secrecy.Eva Horn -2011 -Theory, Culture and Society 28 (7-8):103-122.In the modern age, the political secret has acquired a bad reputation. With modern democracy’s ideal of transparency, political secrecy is identified with political crime or corruption. The article argues that this repression of secrecy in modern democracies falls short of a substantial understanding of the structure and workings of political secrecy. By outlining a genealogy of political secrecy, it elucidates the logic as well as the blind spots of a current culture of secrecy. It focuses on two fundamental logics (...) of secrecy, deduced from the Latin terms ‘ arcanum’ and ‘ secretum’. Whereas the logic of arcanum regards secrecy as a legitimate dimension of government, a modern logic of secretum is marked by an inextricable dialectics between the withdrawal and communication of knowledge, between secrecy and publicity. Here, the secret is not so much a piece of withheld knowledge as a ‘secrecy effect’ that binds the realm of secrecy to the public sphere by a dialectics of permanent suspicion and scandal. Instead of falling into the trap of this ‘secrecy effect’ it is worth taking a closer look at the tradition of thought on the arcana imperii, from Tacitus to early modern doctrines of raison d’état to Carl Schmitt. What this tradition deals with is the functionality of secrecy and its complicated relation to the law. The arcana tradition elaborates the crucial point of secrecy: its potential, but also its profound ambivalence. Secrecy opens up a discretionary space of action exempt from the rule of law, and, according to Carl Schmitt, ignores the law so as to allow it to become effective. Secrecy serves to protect and stabilize the state, but at the same time it opens a space of exception from the rule of law that breeds violence, corruption and oppression. Instead of seeing secrecy as the opposite of a political culture of transparency, it is more productive to regard secrecy as transparency's complement – a counterpart, however, that is marked by the profound paradox of being both a consolidation of and a threat to democracy. (shrink)
- Inheritance Systems and the Extended Synthesis.Eva Jablonka &Marion Lamb -2020 - Cambridge University Press.Current knowledge of the genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic systems of inheritance requires a revision and extension of the mid-twentieth-century, gene-based, 'Modern Synthesis' version of Darwinian evolutionary theory. We present the case for this by first outlining the history that led to the neo-Darwinian view of evolution. In the second section we describe and compare different types of inheritance, and in the third discuss the implications of a broad view of heredity for various aspects of evolutionary theory. We end with (...) an examination of the philosophical and conceptual ramifications of evolutionary thinking that incorporates multiple inheritance systems. (shrink)No categories
- Living and Experiencing: Response to Commentaries.Eva Jablonka &Simona Ginsburg -2024 -Biosemiotics 17 (1):111-130.In our target article, “Learning and the evolution of conscious agents” we outlined an evolutionary approach to consciousness, arguing that the evolution of a form of open-ended, representational, and generative learning (unlimited associative learning, UAL) drove the evolution of consciousness. Our view highlights the dynamics and functions of consciousness, delineates its taxonomic distribution and suggests a framework for exploring its developmental and evolutionary modifications. The approach we offer resonates with biosemioticians’ views, but as the responses to our target article show, (...) our proposal also faces challenges and has led to suggestions that extend, develop and qualify it. Our response to the 14 varied and rich commentaries starts with the recurring and deep question raised by many of them – the relation between life and sentience. We explore this question by introducing and expanding on “vivaciousness”, a term we coined to describe the turbulent, flexible exploration-stabilization processes inherent in the living condition, as well as addressing the related concepts of Umwelt and selfhood. We then consider the question of the adequacy of unlimited associative learning (UAL) as an evolutionary transition marker (ETM) of minimal consciousness (rather than as a marker of a complex form of sentience), and the possible precursors of sentience. The engagement with these broad themes is entangled with a discussion of evolutionary transitions, constitutive emergence and the function/s of consciousness. The suggestions of our commentators, urging us to explore new concepts and new avenues of research within the framework of a richer view of evolution are then discussed. We end by briefly considering what we regard as a conceptual lacuna, which is leading to the indiscriminate use of the term “sentience” and which awaits further investigation. (shrink)
- Précis of evolution in four dimensions.Eva Jablonka &Marion J. Lamb -2007 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (4):353-365.In his theory of evolution, Darwin recognized that the conditions of life play a role in the generation of hereditary variations, as well as in their selection. However, as evolutionary theory was developed further, heredity became identified with genetics, and variation was seen in terms of combinations of randomly generated gene mutations. We argue that this view is now changing, because it is clear that a notion of hereditary variation that is based solely on randomly varying genes that are unaffected (...) by developmental conditions is an inadequate basis for evolutionary theories. Such a view not only fails to provide satisfying explanations of many evolutionary phenomena, it also makes assumptions that are not consistent with the data that are emerging from disciplines ranging from molecular biology to cultural studies. These data show that the genome is far more responsive to the environment than previously thought, and that not all transmissible variation is underlain by genetic differences. In Evolution in Four Dimensions (2005) we identify four types of inheritance (genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbol-based), each of which can provide variations on which natural selection will act. Some of these variations arise in response to developmental conditions, so there are Lamarckian aspects to evolution. We argue that a better insight into evolutionary processes will result from recognizing that transmitted variations that are not based on DNA differences have played a role. This is particularly true for understanding the evolution of human behavior, where all four dimensions of heredity have been important. (shrink)
- Film Denken =.Ludwig Nagl,Eva Waniek &Brigitte Mayr (eds.) -2004 - Wien: Synema.
- Later platonists and their heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims.Ken Parry &Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (eds.) -2023 - Boston: Brill.Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews and Muslims offers a thought-provoking exploration of the reception of Platonism among communities of faith from early Christianity to the sixteenth century, from the Byzantine East to the Latin West. Rare emphasis is placed on the importance of Platonic thought and its diffusion in late antique and medieval Syria, Armenia, and Georgia but also among Arab and Jewish intellectuals from the seventh century onwards. As such, the volume makes a statement against the (...) separation of Neoplatonic philosophy from Christianity and the other Abrahamic faiths, since all four traditions promoted a life of virtue and goodness despite operating under different divine auspices. The volume seeks to establish paths of transmission and modes of adaptation across times and places. (shrink)
- Disconnected – Impaired Interoceptive Accuracy and Its Association With Self-Perception and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Patients With Dissociative Disorder.Eva Schäflein,Heribert C. Sattel,Olga Pollatos &Martin Sack -2018 -Frontiers in Psychology 9.
- Rozhovory s českými lingvisty.Jan Chromý &Eva Lehečková (eds.) -2007 - [Praha]: Dauphin.1. Prof. PhDr. František Daneš, DrSc. ; Prof. PhDr. Eva Hajičová, DrSc. ; PhDr. Pavel Jančák, CSc. ; Prof PhDr. Miroslav Komárek, DrSc. ; Doc. PhDr. Iva Nebeská, CSc. ; Prof. PhDr. Bohumil Palek, DrSc. ; PhDr Jaromír Povejšil, CSc. ; PhDr. Marie Těšitelová, DrSc. ; Prof. PhDr. Oldřich Uličný, DrSc. ; Prof. PhDr. Radoslav Večerka, DrSc. -- 2. Jan Balhar, Zoe Hauptová, Milan Jelínek, Jan Kořenský, Jiří Kraus, Jaroslav Kuchař, Zdena Palková, Petr Sgall, Dušan Šlosar, Ludmila Uhlířová.
- Understanding Fiction: Knowledge and Meaning in Literature.Jürgen Daiber,Eva-Maria Konrad,Thomas Petraschka &Hans Rott (eds.) -2012 - Münster, Germany: Mentis.The book addresses the questions how literature can convey knowledge and how literary meaning can arise in the face of the fact that fictional texts waive the usual claim to truth. Based on the interdisciplinary cooperation of literary scholars and analytic philosophers, the present anthology attempts a) to analyze the possibility and conditions of gaining knowledge through literature, and b) to apply, in a fruitful way, philosophical theories of meaning and interpretation to the constitution of meaning within the language of (...) literature. The project is guided by the hypothesis that the cognitive function of literature cannot be understood without such fundamental modelings of the complex interaction of meaning, truth and knowledge. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- Print︠s︡ipy i metody semanticheskikh issledovaniĭ.V. N. I︠A︡rt︠s︡eva (ed.) -1976 - Moskva: Nauka.Export citation Bookmark
- Interpolation and definability in guarded fragments.Eva Hoogland &Maarten Marx -2002 -Studia Logica 70 (3):373 - 409.The guarded fragment (GF) was introduced by Andréka, van Benthem and Németi as a fragment of first order logic which combines a great expressive power with nice, modal behavior. It consists of relational first order formulas whose quantifiers are relativized by atoms in a certain way. Slightly generalizing the admissible relativizations yields the packed fragment (PF). In this paper we investigate interpolation and definability in these fragments. We first show that the interpolation property of first order logic fails in restriction (...) to GF and PF. However, each of these fragments turns out to have an alternative interpolation property that closely resembles the interpolation property usually studied in modal logic. These results are strong enough to entail the Beth definability property for GF and PF. Even better, every guarded or packed finite variable fragment has the Beth property. For interpolation, we characterize exactly which finite variable fragments of GF and PF enjoy this property. (shrink)
- Professii︠a︡: zhena filosofa.Lidii︠a︡ Berdi︠a︡eva -2002 - Moskva: Molodai︠a︡ gvardii︠a︡. Edited by Elena Vladimirovna Bronnikova.Export citation Bookmark
- Geschlechterdifferenzen in der Philosophie.Petra Caysa,Eva Jelden,Peña Aguado &María Isabel (eds.) -1999 - Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- India en Occidente. Seres malignos y paraisos perdidos.Eva Fernández del Campo -2008 -Contrastes: Revista Cultural 53:21-25.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- The perils of terminology and the saviour sibling dilemma.Barbara Ann Hocking &Eva Ryrstedt -2008 - InThe Nexus of Law and Biology: New Ethical Challenges. Ashgate Pub. Company.Export citation Bookmark
- Filosofii︠a︡ dialoga Martina Bubera.T. P. Lifint︠s︡eva -1999 - Moskva: Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk, Institut filosofii.No categories
- Filosofii︠a︡ istorii: vzaimosvi︠a︡zʹ ontologicheskikh i gnoseologicheskikh aspektov monografii︠a︡.N. V. Zaĭt︠s︡eva -2013 - Samara: Ofort.Export citation Bookmark
- 2. Carol Gilligan: Care-Ethik.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 44-60.
- Contemporary German Philosophy and Its Background.Eva Schaper -1972 -Philosophical Quarterly 22 (87):171.
- (1 other version)Die Objektivitat der Werterkenntnis bei Nicolai Hartmann.Nicolai Hartmann, Der Denker und sein Werk.Eva Schaper -1954 -Philosophical Quarterly 4 (14):90.No categories
- 24. Deontologische und teleologische Sollgeltung der Ethik.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 190-192.No categories
- Einleitung.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 11-12.No categories
- Hegel, Kant and the Structure of the Object, by Robert Stem.Eva Schaper -1992 -Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 23 (2):186-187.
- Kant's aesthetic theory.Eva Schaper -1975 -Philosophical Books 16 (1):13-15.No categories
- Kant and the Philosophy of History.Eva Schaper -1982 -Philosophical Books 23 (4):210-212.
- Literaturverzeichnis.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 193-208.No categories
- 15. Objektivität der praktischen und theoretischen Wissenschaften.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 138-139.No categories
- The biopolitics of feeling: race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century by Kyla Schuller. [REVIEW]Eva Hoffmann -2020 -Feminist Theory 21 (4):522-524.No categories
- Philosophie und Reflexion.Eva Schaper &Hans Wagner -1963 -Philosophical Quarterly 13 (53):375.No categories
- Personenregister.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 209-210.No categories
- 22. Postkonventioneller Verantwortungsuniversalismus: Stufe 7 und 8.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 184-187.No categories
- Representational Mind. A Study of Kant's Theory of Knowledge, by Richard E. Aquila.Eva Schaper -1985 -Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 16 (2):202-204.
- Science and Person: A Study of The Idea of “Philosophy as Rigorous Science” In Kant and Husserl, by B. H. Son.Eva Schaper -1975 -Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 6 (3):202-203.
- The Critical Historians of Art.Eva Schaper -1984 -Philosophical Books 25 (1):29-31.
- 20. Trägt die Diskursethik den vier Fürsorgeaspekten Gilligans Rechnung?Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 168-175.No categories
- The ‘history of art’ and the ‘history of taste’.Eva Schaper -1963 -British Journal of Aesthetics 3 (2):157-159.
- The manifold in perception: Theories of art from Kant to Hildebrand.Eva Schaper -1973 -Philosophical Books 14 (2):15-17.
- The Nature of Sympathy.By Max Scheler.Eva Schaper -1971 -Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 2 (2):97-99.
- The Relevance of the Beautiful, by Hans-Georg Gadamer. Edited by Robert Bernasconi; Translated by Nicholas Walker.Eva Schaper -1989 -Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 20 (1):91-92.
- 5. Universalistische Ethik der Gerechtigkeit und Fürsorge.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 89-92.No categories
- Vorwort.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 9-10.No categories
- 6. Von der Identitäts- zur Komplementaritätsthese.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 93-100.No categories
- 13. Von der semantischen zur pragmatischen Theorie der Bedeutung.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 126-133.No categories
- 14. Von der Transzendentalpragmatik zur Ethik.Eva-Maria Schwickert -2000 - InFeminismus Und Gerechtigkeit: Über Eine Ethik von Verantwortung Und Diskurs. De Gruyter. pp. 134-137.No categories
- Vom Erkennen des Literarischen Kunstwerks.Roman Ingarden.Eva Schaper -1970 -Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 1 (3):82-84.
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