Logical fallacies persist in invasion biology and blaming the messengers will not improve accountability in this field: a response to Frank et al [0.03%]
逻辑谬误在入侵生物学中持续存在，指责信使不会提高该领域的问责制：对Frank等人文章的回应
Radu Cornel Guiaşu,Christopher W Tindale
Radu Cornel Guiaşu
We analyze the "Logical fallacies and reasonable debates in invasion biology: a response to Guiaşu and Tindale" article by Frank et al., and also discuss this work in the context of recent intense debates in invasion biology, and reactions...
When should researchers cite study differences in response to a failure to replicate? [0.03%]
无法复现研究结果时，研究人员应如何引用研究差异？
David Colaço,John Bickle,Bradley Walters
David Colaço
Scientists often respond to failures to replicate by citing differences between the experimental components of an original study and those of its attempted replication. In this paper, we investigate these purported mismatch explanations. We...
Bengt Autzen,Samir Okasha
Bengt Autzen
In a recent paper, Takacs and Bourrat (Biol Philos 37:12, 2022) examine the use of geometric mean reproductive output as a measure of biological fitness. We welcome Takacs and Bourrat's scrutiny of a fitness definition that some philosopher...
Birte Wrage
Birte Wrage
Are there nonhuman animals who behave morally? In this paper I answer this question in the affirmative by applying the framework of care ethics to the animal morality debate. According to care ethics, empathic care is the wellspring of mora...
Tools of the trade: the bio-cultural evolution of the human propensity to trade [0.03%]
交易的工具：人类贸易倾向的生物文化进化
Armin W Schulz
Armin W Schulz
Humans are standouts in their propensity to trade. More specially, the kind of trading found in humans-featuring the exchange of many different goods and services with many different others, for the mutual benefit of all the involved partie...
Ignacio Ojea Quintana,Sarita Rosenstock,Colin Klein
Ignacio Ojea Quintana
Epidemiological models directly shape policy responses to public health crises. We argue that they also play a less obvious but important role in solving certain coordination problems and social dilemmas that arise during pandemics. This ro...
Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined? [0.03%]
免疫性推论：为什么精神疾病和免疫反应相互交织？
Anjali Bhat,Thomas Parr,Maxwell Ramstead et al.
Anjali Bhat et al.
There is a steadily growing literature on the role of the immune system in psychiatric disorders. So far, these advances have largely taken the form of correlations between specific aspects of inflammation (e.g. blood plasma levels of infla...
Case Reports
Biology & philosophy. 2021;36(3):27. DOI:10.1007/s10539-021-09801-6 2021
Unlimited Associative Learning and the origins of consciousness: a primer and some predictions [0.03%]
无限的联想学习和意识的起源：入门指南与预测
Jonathan Birch,Simona Ginsburg,Eva Jablonka
Jonathan Birch
Over the past two decades, Ginsburg and Jablonka have developed a novel approach to studying the evolutionary origins of consciousness: the Unlimited Associative Learning (UAL) framework. The central idea is that there is a distinctive type...
The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures [0.03%]
潜解决方案区域及其对理解猿类文化的关联性
Claudio Tennie,Elisa Bandini,Carel P van Schaik et al.
Claudio Tennie et al.
The zone of latent solutions (ZLS) hypothesis provides an alternative approach to explaining cultural patterns in primates and many other animals. According to the ZLS hypothesis, non-human great ape (henceforth: ape) cultures consist large...
Are emotional states based in the brain? A critique of affective brainocentrism from a physiological perspective [0.03%]
基于大脑的情感状态吗？一种生理学视角下的情感脑中心主义批判
Giovanna Colombetti,Eder Zavala
Giovanna Colombetti
We call affective brainocentrism the tendency to privilege the brain over other parts of the organism when defining or explaining emotions. We distinguish two versions of this tendency. According to brain-sufficient, emotional states are en...