Philosophy of Plant Cognition

This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy.

Autorentext

Gabriele Ferretti is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergamo (Italy). He is the author of many monographs and journal articles in philosophy of mind and of neuroscience.

Peter Schulte is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Umeå University (Sweden). He is the author of Mental Content (2023) and numerous articles on the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

Markus Wild is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basel (Switzerland). He mainly works on animal minds and animal ethics.

Inhalt

The Philosophy of Plant Cognition: Introduction Peter Schulte, Gabriele Ferretti, and Markus Wild Part 1: Cognition and Representation 1. Why Plant Cognition Is Not (Yet) Out of the Woods Carrie Figdor 2. What Deception Reveals About Plant Cognition Marc Artiga 3. Are Plants Representational Systems? Peter Schulte Part 2: Sensation and Perception 4. Not All Sensory Systems Are Information Channels: Outliers from Plant Biology and Beyond Todd Ganson 5. Plants Sense, But Only Animals Perceive Mohan Matthen Part 3: Learning, Behavior, Affordances 6. No Brain? No Problem: Toward an Ecological Comparative Psychology P. Adrian Frazier 7. Ecological Plant Learning Johnny Lee and Aditya Ponkshe 8. On Plant Affordances Gabriele Ferretti Part 4: Consciousness 9. Making Sense of Plant Sense Brian Key and Deborah J. Brown 10. A Liberal View on Plant Consciousness Markus Wild