Ideas Pertaining to a Biogenic Psychology

Where biochemistry and cognition meet: the Gut-Brain Axis

How does one reconcile knowledge of molecular and cellular mechanisms with macrophenomena like observable behaviors or general cognitive processing? It’s hardly an easy question. However, at least two different lines of research are taking their time to answer it, and they are doing great: Basal cognition research. By looking at how organisms from the lower […]

Fred M R

February 11, 2022

Biochemistry, Biology, Cognitive Science, English, Philosophy

Analytic Philosophy, Basal Cognition, Biochemistry, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Gut-Brain Axis, Immunology, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Physiology

[Hoping] this is the end

Hello, everyone. I acknowledge that, generally, I only have two or three readers that actually take the time to interact with my posts, so this will probably go unnoticed but it’s alright. I just want to vent after all. I will do my best to stay as far away as possible from all the things […]

Fred M R

September 25, 2021

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Presenting my new project EXOGRAM

So, here I am again. The purpose of this post is to present to you guys my new project: EXOGRAM. I barely have 7 blog entries in my new project, most of them related to the history of evolutionary biology and 2 about memory. I would like to invite you all to check out my […]

Fred M R

April 13, 2021

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New future project

Hello, everyone. I haven’t been posting for a while, mainly for personal reasons and also because I have found different ways to study. So this blog’s main purpose was, on the first place, to summarize the things that I would learn as I kept reading and studying and post them online so people could learn […]

Fred M R

April 10, 2021

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What is the massive modularity hypothesis?

If you guys ever read my previous posts on cognitive science, then you are probably acquainted with Jerry Alan Fodor and his contributions to its rise after the decline in popularity of radical behaviorism due to Chomsky’s strawman and some arguments by Lashley that have nothing to do with radical behaviorism at all. Today we […]

Fred M R

March 10, 2021

Biology, Cognitive Science, English, Metaphysics, Psychology

Biology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computational Theory of Mind, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Philosophy, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Psychology

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc: The mistake of David Braddon-Mitchell in analyzing behaviorism as a single unified theory through its entire lifespan

Professor David Braddon-Mitchell wrote a section for the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology called “Behaviorism”, where he makes some interesting claims about the nature of behaviorism as it developed in psychology and in analytic philosophy. Fitting square pegs into round holes One of the main mistakes done by David Braddon Mitchell is believing that […]

Fred M R

March 5, 2021

Cognitive Science, English, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Psychology, Research Methodology

4E Cognition, Analytic Behaviorism, Analytic Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Radical Behaviorism, Science

Methodenstreit in philosophy and the truth-value of philosophical systems

Methodenstreit is a term that is generally applied to an old dispute in the social sciences that emerged in the end of the nineteenth century with authors such as Carl Menger and Gustav Schmoller. Methodenstreit stands for ‘method dispute’ and Menger and Schmoller represented two competing schools that debated about the method that the […]

Fred M R

January 29, 2021

English, Metaphysics, Philosophy

Epistemology, History of Philosophy, Logic, Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge

The unity of biochemistry

I enjoy reading about biology and chemistry as far as I can understand it, since I’ve been too lazy to delve into any textbook and finally get my biochemistry right. Good thing is that John Ellis has some interesting things to say about this subject matter without going too deep into technical jargon and formulas, […]

Fred M R

December 29, 2020

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Piaget on learning

I’ve written before about Piaget, but this time I’m doing it to try to shed some light about the idea of a pre-epiphany and post-epiphany state of mind when it comes to learning a new concept. But, first of all, let us define our terms appropriately to have a better understanding of what is coming: […]

Fred M R

December 27, 2020

Cognitive Science, Education, English, Philosophy, Psychology

Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind

After a two-month hiatus: Am I a behaviorist now?

Before my last post this December 25th, the last time I had published something was on November 4th, which is quite a long time. The reason for this sudden hiatus is simple: academic confusion. Honestly, I’ve been in limbo for quite a long while. Focusing more on psychology than in neuroscience, I’ve delved into several […]

Fred M R

December 26, 2020

Cognitive Science, English, Philosophy, Psychology

Behavioral Psychology, Cognitive Behaviorism, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology