Empathy's purity, sympathy's complexities; De Waal, Darwin and Adam Smith [0.03%]
共情的纯粹与同情的复杂——德瓦尔、达尔文和亚当·斯密
Cor van der Weele
Cor van der Weele
Frans de Waal's view that empathy is at the basis of morality directly seems to build on Darwin, who considered sympathy as the crucial instinct. Yet when we look closer, their understanding of the central social instinct differs considerab...
Brian R Johnson
Brian R Johnson
While some branches of complexity theory are advancing rapidly, the same cannot be said for our understanding of emergence. Despite a complete knowledge of the rules underlying the interactions between the parts of many systems, we are ofte...
Harry Smit
Harry Smit
Badcock and Crespi have advanced the hypothesis that autism and schizophrenia are caused by imbalanced imprinting in the brain. They argue that an imbalance between the effects of paternally and maternally expressed genes on brain developme...
Kristen Intemann,Inmaculada de Melo-Martín
Kristen Intemann
Several have argued that the aims of scientific research are not always independent of social and ethical values. Yet this is often assumed only to have implications for decisions about what is studied, or which research projects are funded...
Rory Smead
Rory Smead
Signals regarding the behavior of others are an essential element of human moral systems and there are important evolutionary connections between language and large-scale cooperation. In particular, social communication may be required for ...
Hanno Sandvik
Hanno Sandvik
Both written and graphic accounts of history can be biased by the perspective of the historian. O'Hara (Biol Philos 7:135-160, 1992) has demonstrated that this also applies to evolutionary history and its historians, and identified four nar...
Metamemory as evidence of animal consciousness: the type that does the trick [0.03%]
元记忆作为动物意识的证据：关键在于种类类型
Nicholas Shea,Cecilia Heyes
Nicholas Shea
The question of whether non-human animals are conscious is of fundamental importance. There are already good reasons to think that many are, based on evolutionary continuity and other considerations. However, the hypothesis is notoriously r...
Ronald Meester
Ronald Meester
William Dembski (No free lunch: why specified complexity cannot be purchased without intelligence, 2002) claimed that the NFL theorems from optimization theory render darwinian biological evolution impossible. Häggström (Biology and Philo...