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The Epigenesis of Germs and Dispositions in Logic and Life: Kant’s System of Pure Reason and His Concept of Race [PDF]
In the 1787 Transcendental Deduction of the categories Kant indicates the only possible ways in which one can account for a necessary agreement of experience with the concepts of its objects (B166), making analogies between modes of explanation and ...
Ferrini, Cinzia
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Extending epigenesis: from phenotypic plasticity to the bio-cultural feedback [PDF]
The paper aims at proposing an extended notion of epigenesis acknowledging an actual causal import to the phenotypic dimension for the evolutionary diversification of life forms.
A Bouaïchi+134 more
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Epigenesis and Coherence of the Aesthetic Mechanism [PDF]
Can we properly define and explain the human mind an aesthetic mind? The purpose of the paper is to answer this and the related questions that it implies. How do we understand the conceptual field of the aesthetic?
Fabrizio Desideri
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Neural correlates of epigenesis [PDF]
The effect of life stress on depression is moderated by a repeat length variation in the transcriptional control region of the serotonin transporter gene, which renders carriers of the short variant vulnerable for depression. We investigated the underlying neural mechanisms of these epigenetic processes in individuals with no history of psychopathology
Turhan Canli+2 more
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The 17th and 18th centuries were the theatre of the fight between two main theories concerning the development of organisms: preformationism (or preformism) and epigeneticism (or epigenesis).
Elena Casetta
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Methylation is an essential biochemical mechanism that is central to the transmission of life, and crucially responsible for regulating gametogenesis and continued embryo development.
Yves Menezo, Kay Elder
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A critical step in animal development is the specification of primordial germ cells (PGCs), the precursors of the germline. Two seemingly mutually exclusive mechanisms are implemented across the animal kingdom: epigenesis and preformation. In epigenesis,
Megan M Colonnetta+5 more
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Ageing And Cancer As Diseases Of Epigenesis [PDF]
Cancer and ageing are often said to be diseases of development. During the past fifty years, the genetic components of cancer and ageing have been intensely investigated since development, itself, was seen to be an epiphenomenon of the genome.
Gilbert, Scott F.
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The Locus of Affection. Intersubjective Life from Enaction to Epigenesis [PDF]
How is it possible for me to engage in an intersubjective world? In enactivism, cognition is defined as the living system’s interaction with the meaningful world. What is missing, here, is the conceptualization of intersubjectivity.
Maxim Miroshnichenko
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Proactive epigenesis and ethics [PDF]
A recent article by Kathinka Evers and Jean Pierre Changeux offers a new approach to the issue of moral change [1]. They propose proactive epigenesis as a tool to communicate and establish social and ethical norms in education and upbringing so as to build better societies.
Arleen Salles
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