Philosophy in ‘Evolution Evolving’

29 August 2024

Philosophy in ‘Evolution Evolving’

No field showcases the virtues of philosophy of biology more effectively than evolutionary science (although I recently learned from Gregory Rupik, 2024, that this observation is not necessarily a virtue). As a graduate student and would-be evolutionist in London in the late 1980s, I was introduced to the pioneering writings of David Hull on evolutionary […]

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New Paper, I. Hipólito, T. van Es (2022), Enactive-Dynamic Social Cognition and Active Inference

17 November 2022

New Paper, I. Hipólito, T. van Es (2022), Enactive-Dynamic Social Cognition and Active Inference

Published open-access in Frontiers in Psychology Abstract: This aim of this paper is two-fold: it critically analyses and rejects accounts blending active inference as theory of mind and enactivism; and it advances an enactivist-dynamic understanding of social cognition that is compatible with active inference. While some social cognition theories seemingly take an enactive perspective on […]

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