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New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences

Redaktion: Viejo, José Manuel; Sanjuán, Mariano

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This volume provides a broad overview of some cutting-edge philosophical topics of growing interest at the juncture between cognitive science and biology. The main goal is not to integrate the variety of approaches into a single account, but rather to offer diverse perspectives on a collection of selected biological issues of particular philosophical relevance, reflecting the plurality of current research in these areas. Four conceptual vectors give this volume its coherence: Animal and human cognition: With respect to animal cognition, this volume focuses on self-awareness and methodological...

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José Manuel Viejo obtained his PhD in Philosophy and Language Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid in November 2019. Before that, he graduated in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid and obtained a Master's degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the University of Salamanca. He taught several subjects at an undergraduate level (Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Theory of Knowledge) in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Currently, he is Professor-Tutor of Philosophy of Language at the National Distance Education University. During his PhD, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California Riverside and the Institut Jean Nicod. He has been part of the R&D projects "Material cultures, epistemic cultures. Standards, cognitive practices, and knowledge", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness, and "Intellectual autonomy in environments of epistemic dependence", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. He is also part of Madrid Philosophy Network, AEGEA (Applied Epistemology Research Group), the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy. His main research interests lie in the philosophy of mind and language, with a special focus on the issue of the semantics of propositional attitude ascriptions. Some of his other research interests are in the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of logic, epistemology and metaphysics. Mariano Sanjuán Mariano Sanjuán is Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science of the Autonomous University of Madrid with a thesis on the recent history of scientific pluralism. He graduated in Philosophy from the University of Zaragoza and San Diego State University and holdsa Master's degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the University of Salamanca. His research focuses on the history of philosophy of science with a special emphasis on the so-called Stanford School. Other fields of interest are the perspectivist approach in the Scientific Realism debate, the History and Philosophy of Psychiatry and the History of Biological Sciences in the XVII century. He has published at numerous top-ranked Spanish Philosophy journals as well as international such as European Journal for Philosophy of Science.