Biology & Philosophy

Papers
(The TQCC of Biology & Philosophy is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
From allostatic agents to counterfactual cognisers: active inference, biological regulation, and the origins of cognition67
The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures50
Unlimited Associative Learning and the origins of consciousness: a primer and some predictions44
What is an animal personality?43
The math is not the territory: navigating the free energy principle41
Character identity mechanisms: a conceptual model for comparative-mechanistic biology37
Defining aging28
Is co-management a double-edged sword in the protected areas of Sundarbans mangrove?21
Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning20
Toolmaking and the evolution of normative cognition19
Unknotting reciprocal causation between organism and environment18
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the free energy principle in biology17
When imprecision is a good thing, or how imprecise concepts facilitate integration in biology16
Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?15
The evolutionary role of affordances: ecological psychology, niche construction, and natural selection15
Assessing measures of animal welfare13
Defining the niche for niche construction: evolutionary and ecological niches13
Narrative niche construction: memory ecologies and distributed narrative identities12
Out of our skull, in our skin: the Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis and the Extended Cognition Thesis12
Chimpanzee normativity: evidence and objections12
Is free-energy minimisation the mark of the cognitive?12
Limiting the explanatory scope of extended active inference: the implications of a causal pattern analysis of selective niche construction, developmental niche construction, and organism-niche coordin11
Beyond quantitative and qualitative traits: three telling cases in the life sciences11
What is a target system?11
Anthropogenic climate change as a monumental niche construction process: background and philosophical aspects11
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms10
Zoocentrism in the weeds? Cultivating plant models for cognitive yield10
How to do things with nonwords: pragmatics, biosemantics, and origins of language in animal communication10
Does proper function come in degrees?9
What are the major transitions?9
Race and medicine in light of the new mechanistic philosophy of science9
The living fossil concept: reply to Turner9
Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation9
The free energy principle: it’s not about what it takes, it’s about what took you there8
Broadening the problem agenda of biological individuality: individual differences, uniqueness and temporality8
A role for representations in inflexible behavior7
Niche construction and teleology: organisms as agents and contributors in ecology, development, and evolution7
Complex vocal learning and three-dimensional mating environments6
Internal perspectivalism: the solution to generality problems about proper function and natural norms6
Causal inference in biomedical research6
A continuum of intentionality: linking the biogenic and anthropogenic approaches to cognition6
Hutchinson’s ecological niche for individuals5
The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness5
Retiring the “Cinderella view”: the spinal cord as an intrabodily cognitive extension5
Towards ending the animal cognition war: a three-dimensional model of causal cognition5
The use and limitations of null-model-based hypothesis testing5
Is cancer a matter of luck?5
The learning-consciousness connection5
The evolution of episodic-like memory: the importance of biological and ecological constraints4
Evolutionary biology meets consciousness: essay review of Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka’s The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul4
A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes4
Dynamical causes4
Free energy: a user’s guide4
Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building4
Understanding immunity: an alternative framework beyond defense and strength4
Microbiome causality: further reflections (a response to our commentators)4
Caring animals and care ethics4
Do transposable elements have functions of their very own?4
Learning and the biology of consciousness: a commentary on Birch, Ginsburg, and Jablonka4
On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat4
Science and values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate4
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