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    Mind Ecologies: Body, Brain, and World.Matthew Crippen & Jay Schulkin - 2020 - New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press. Edited by Jay Schulkin.
    Mind Ecologies: Body, Brain, and World: Book Abstract from Columbian University Press -/- Matthew Crippen and Jay Schulkin -/- Pragmatism, a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology and embodied cognitive science, is resurging across disciplines. It has growing relevance to literary studies, the arts, and religious scholarship, along with branches of political theory, not to mention our understanding of science. But philosophies and sciences of mind have lagged behind this pragmatic turn, for the most part retaining a central-nervous-system (...)
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    Bodily Sensibility: Intelligent Action.Jay Schulkin - 2004 - Oxford University Press USA.
    Although we usually identify our abilities to reason, to adapt to situations, and to solve problems with the mind, recent research has shown that we should not, in fact, detach these abilities from the body. This work provides an integrative framework for understanding how these abilities are affected by visceral reactions. Schulkin presents provocative neuroscientific research demonstrating that thought is not on one side and bodily sensibility on the other; from a biological point of view, they are integrated. Schulkin further (...)
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    From normal fear to pathological anxiety.Jeffrey B. Rosen & Jay Schulkin - 1998 - Psychological Review 105 (2):325-350.
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    Neuropsychology and the cognitive nature of the emotions.W. Gerrod Parrott & Jay Schulkin - 1993 - Cognition and Emotion 7 (1):43-59.
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    A Neurodynamic Perspective on Musical Enjoyment: The Role of Emotional Granularity.Nathaniel F. Barrett & Jay Schulkin - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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    The Common Currency of Our Aesthetic Sensibility.Mark Johnson & Jay Schulkin - 2020 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 56 (3):326-348.
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    Aesthetic experience and the neurobiology of inquiry.Jay Schulkin - 2006 - In John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 361–368.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Aesthetics Musical Syntax, Discrepancy and Activation Probability, Expectations, and Learning Dopamine, Discrepancy and the Prediction of Reward Musement and the Play of Ideas Conclusion.
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    Biological realism and social constructivism.John Sabini & Jay Schulkin - 1994 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 24 (3):207–217.
    In this paper we attempt to reconcile two important, current intellectual traditions: Darwinism and social constructionism. We believe that these two schools have important points of contact that have been obscured because each school has feared that the other wanted to put it out of business. We try to show that both traditions have much to of offer psychology, a discipline that has often been too individualistic, too concerned with the private and the subjective. The spirit of American pragmatism can (...)
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    Emotional granularity and the musical enjoyment of sadness itself.Nathaniel F. Barrett, Jay Schulkin & Javier Bernacer - 2017 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40.
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    Foraging for Coherence in Neuroscience: A Pragmatist Orientation.Jay Schulkin - 2016 - Contemporary Pragmatism 13 (1):1-28.
    Foraging for coherence is a pragmatist philosophy of the brain. It is a philosophy anchored to objects and instrumental in understanding the brain. Our age is dominated by neuroscience. A critical common sense underlies inquiry including that of neuroscience. Thus a pragmatist orientation to neuroscience is about foraging for coherence; not overselling neuroscience. Foraging for coherence is the search for adaptation – diverse epistemic orientation tied ideally to learning about oneself, one’s nature, and one’s history in the context of learning (...)
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    Lives Cut Short: suicide among adolescent females.Meaghan Stacy & Jay Schulkin - 2023 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 66 (3):437-450.
    ABSTRACT:Suicide is a worldwide public health issue, and suicide ideation and behavior among adolescents, females in particular, have been increasing. Focusing on the risk factors that are unique to adolescents and adolescent females can help tailor and inform prevention strategies. There are unique biological, psychological, social, and societal factors that contribute to suicide ideation and behavior among adolescent females. Some of these include hormonal fluctuations and sensitivity, developing brain systems, impacts of social media, maladaptive coping, and peer influence. These changes (...)
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    A Pragmatist Perspective on Brains, Trust, and Choice.Jay Schulkin - 2023 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 37 (1):61-80.
    ABSTRACT Human beings evolved in small groups. Social trust was and is, according to Jay Schulkin, a critical feature in getting a foothold in the world. Social trust is fundamental for our viability in our democracy. It is frail. Tribes dominate, truth-telling is marginalized by partisan interests. Pragmatism is rooted in democratic adventures and self-corrective inquiry with civic sensibility. Freedom, Schulkin suggests, is about choice, but limiting choice is an important factor in the organization of action and our viability in (...)
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    Abduction and the Logic of Inquiry: Modern Epistemic Vectors.Jay Schulkin - 2021 - In John R. Shook & Sami Paavola (eds.), Abduction in Cognition and Action: Logical Reasoning, Scientific Inquiry, and Social Practice. Springer Verlag. pp. 231-246.
    CS Peirce introduced the concept of abduction into our epistemic lexicon. It is a view of problem solving that emphasizes ecological contexts, preparatory or predictive predilection knotted to learning and inquiry. Abduction is essentially tied more broadly to pragmatism. One view of the brain reflects the fact that predictive predilections knotted to abduction or hypothesis testing dominates the landscape of diverse forms of problem solving. Abduction is biologically constrained and contextual, not a monolithic term and runs the range of neural (...)
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    Naturalism and pragmatism.Jay Schulkin - 2012 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    'Naturalism and Pragmatism' offers reflections on the pragmatic tradition from a fresh perspective: that of a working neuroscientist. Though naturalism and evolution are not the only topics of discussions, they are important themes of the book. Both pragmatism and modern behavioral science grew up in the wake of Darwin's theory of evolution. Indeed it is impossible to imagine either without evolutionary theory and the more general nineteenth-century trend of naturalism from which modern evolutionary theory emerged. And yet, for a variety (...)
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  15. Action and cephalic expression : hermeneutical pragmatism.Jay Schulkin & Patrick Heelan - 2012 - In Action, perception and the brain: adaptation and cephalic expression. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
  16. Decision-making and the threat of global warming.Jonathan Baron & Jay Schulkin - forthcoming - Social Epistemology.
     
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    The problem of global warming from a decision‐theoretic perspective.Jonathan Baron & Jay Schulkin - 1995 - Social Epistemology 9 (4):353 – 368.
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    ECO‐Logic: The evolution of a philosophy and economics of nature.Michael E. Colby & Jay Schulkin - 1992 - World Futures 33 (4):239-252.
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    What sort of system could an affective system be? A reply to LeDoux.W. Gerrod Parrott & Jay Schulkin - 1993 - Cognition and Emotion 7 (1):65-69.
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    An instinct for spiritual quests: Quiet religion.Jay Schulkin - 2007 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 21 (4):pp. 307-320.
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    Cognitive Adaptation: Insights from a Pragmatist Perspective.Jay Schulkin - 2008 - Contemporary Pragmatism 5 (1):39-59.
    Classical pragmatism construed mind as an adaptive organ rooted in biology; biology was not one side and culture on the other. The cognitive systems underlie adaptation in response to the precarious and in the search for the stable and more secure that result in diverse forms of inquiry. Cognitive systems are rooted in action, and classical pragmatism knotted our sense of ourselves in response to nature and our cultural evolution. Cognitive systems should be demythologized away from Cartesian detachment, and towards (...)
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    Cognitive functions, bodily sensibility and the brain.Jay Schulkin - 2006 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 5 (3-4):341-349.
    Body representations traverse the whole of the brain. They provide vital sources of information for every facet of an animal’s behavior, and such direct neural connectivity of visceral input throughout the nervous system demonstrates just how strongly cognitive systems are linked to bodily representations. At each level of the neural axis there are visceral appraisal systems that are integral in the organization of action. Cognition is not one side of a divide and viscera the other, with action merely a reflexive (...)
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    Cephalic Organization: Animacy and Agency.Jay Schulkin - 2008 - Contemporary Pragmatism 5 (1):61-77.
    Humans come prepared to recognize two fundamental features of our surroundings: animate objects and agents. This recognition begins early in ontogeny and pervades our ecological and social space. This cognitive capacity reveals an important adaptation and sets the conditions for pervasive shared experiences. One feature of our species and our evolved cephalic substrates is that we are prepared to recognize self-propelled action in others. Our cultural evolution is knotted to an expanding sense of shared experiences.
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    Effort and will: A cognitive neuroscience perspective.Jay Schulkin - 2007 - Mind and Matter 5 (1):111-126.
    Earlier views associated cognition with the cortex, and the will with sub-cortical non-cognitive structures. But an emerging perspective is that cognition runs throughout the central nervous sys- tem, including areas typically linked to motor control. It is an important realization that perceptual/effector systems are pregnant with cognitive resources. Staying the course to achieve one 's goals amidst diverse pulls is the primary function of the will. One adaptation is to pre-commit oneself to future recursive actions consistent with one's plans. Diverse (...)
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    Evolutionary conceptions of adaptation and brain design.Jay Schulkin - 1989 - World Futures 27 (1):1-15.
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    Evolving Sensibilities of our Conception of Nature.Jay Schulkin - 1998 - Process Studies 27 (3):241-254.
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    (1 other version)Fairness, Dignity, and Beauty in Sport.Jay Schulkin - 2017 - Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 25 (1):97-115.
    Fairness is a normative ideal that runs through sports. After all, what defines our cultural evolution in general is a conception of morality, whether thought of in the context of the state, tribe, team, or individual. Human dignity is also one of the important features of sport. Sport is reality for the better part of our nature. We find inspiration for the meaning of life in sport; dignity, social contact, rising to show the “better angel” overcoming adversity, managing defeat, the (...)
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    Holmes’ – An American Pragmatist: Critical Experience in War: Trauma and the Brain.Jay Schulkin - 2018 - Contemporary Pragmatism 15 (4):407-429.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes jr was a survivor of the Civil War. Wounded three times and left for dead once, he survived endless pain and death for a war for which he believed more in the beginning of the virtues of the war than he did at the end. But it was this important experience that pervades his long life. And we now know how to think about how trauma turns to memory sculptured onto the brain. Holmes’ emphasized experience in adjudication (...)
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    Hormone Therapy, Dilemmas, Medical Decisions.Jay Schulkin - 2008 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (1):73-88.
    The question of why women, in consultation with their physicians, should choose hormone therapy in response to menopause represents a renewed controversy at the beginning of the new century. Conflicting messages regarding the health risks and benefits of HT have been conveyed in the mainstream media, especially information in the media regarding the results of large-scale studies of the health impact of hormone therapy. Women who have been on one or another of the hormone replacement regimes have been forced to (...)
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    Intelligence and rationality in evolution and culture.Jay Schulkin - 1987 - World Futures 23 (4):275-289.
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    Inquiry, vision and objects: Foraging for coherence within neuroscience.Jay Schulkin - 2013 - Human Affairs 23 (4):616-632.
    We come prepared to track events and objects, building our knowledge base while foraging for coherence. Classical pragmatism recognizes that the acquisition of knowledge is in part a contact sport (e.g. Peirce, Dewey). One of the aims of neuroscience is to capture human experience. One route to perhaps achieve this may be through the study of the visual system and its expansion in our evolutionary history. Embodied cephalic systems, as Dewey knew well, are tied to self-corrective inquiry. A philosophy of (...)
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    Life Experiences and Educational Sensibilities.Jay Schulkin - 2009 - Contemporary Pragmatism 6 (2):137-163.
    The human adventure in education is one of imperfect expression, punctuated by moments of insight. Education cultivates these epiphanies and nurtures their possible continuation. But even without major or minor insights, education cultivates the appreciation of the good, the beautiful, and the true. An experimentalist's sensibility lies amid the humanist's grasp of the myriad ways of trying to understand our existence. To bridge discourse is to appreciate the languages of other cultures, which reveal the nuances of life and experience.
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    Music and Cephalic Capability.Jay Schulkin - 2021 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 13 (1).
    Pragmatists views, like those of John Dewey’s about music, emphasize the social nature of musical sensibility, instrumental expressions and adaptation to changing circumstances. Indeed, expectancy and violations of those expectations in music are tied to memory and human development. Cephalic (mind/brain/body) factors that underlie what we expect, and variation on the expected, inhere in musical experiences. Music is a piece of nature and is tied to movement and dance and rooted in social contact. Music of course serves many functions in (...)
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    Modest Neural Truths: Dispositions and Foraging for Coherence.Jay Schulkin & Tibor Solymosi - 2023 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 37 (2):137-164.
    William James’s lead continues to provide a balancing act of inquiry and truth with plurality and conflict. First, this article considers this balancing act in neuroscience, both what we have been learning since James published The Principles of Psychology and in how neuroscience is done. As pragmatists have long argued against dualisms and absolutes, the authors situate contemporary understanding in its historical context. Humans have evolved as brains-in-bodies-in-cultures and navigate such worlds through good-enough strategies, not a disembodied reason. Embodied intelligence (...)
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    Moral sensibility,visceral representations,and social cohesion: A behavioral neuroscience perspective.Jay Schulkin - 2005 - Mind and Matter 3 (1):31-56.
    The moral sentiments adumbrated by Adam Smith and Charles Darwin reflect some of our basic social appraisals of each other. One set of moral appraisals reflects disgust and withdrawal, a form of contempt. Another set of moral appraisals reflects active concern responses, an appreciation of the experiences (sympathy for some- one)of other individuals and approach related behaviors. While no one set of neural structures is designed for only moral appraisals, a diverse set of neural regions that include the gustatory/visceral neural (...)
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience.Jay Schulkin - 2019 - Springer Verlag.
    This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Jr., and the pragmatist tradition of John Dewey. Schulkin proposes that human problem solving and the law are tied to a naturalistic, realistic and an anthropological understanding of the human condition. The situated character of legal reasoning, given its complexity, like reasoning in neuroscience, can be notoriously fallible. Legal and scientific reasoning is to be (...)
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    Psychobiological basis of empathy.Jay Schulkin - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1):46-47.
    Empathy represents one of the basic forms of human expression. Empathy evolved to facilitate social behavior. The perception action model, extended to empathy, is an exciting paradigm in which to undertake contemporary cognitive and comparative neuroscience. It renders the perception of events as an active affair, both when watching others, and when performing actions.
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    Pragmatic Naturalism and Social Cooperation.Jay Schulkin - 2014 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 28 (1):52-78.
    ABSTRACT A profound sense of biological explanations and the social nature of our species were appreciated by Chauncey Wright and American classical pragmatists. Inquiry was understood in the context of social cooperation. One achievement in the evolution of cephalic function is the development of social cooperative behaviors, the cornerstone of our cultural productivity. Classical pragmatism is linked to an expanding sense of human capability, tied to the deepening of human experience. While pragmatism is open-ended, the limits of human function put (...)
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  39. Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Drugs: Health Care Dilemmas.Jay Schulkin & Robert Neville - 1983 - In Catherine P. Murphy & Howard Hunter (eds.), Ethical problems in the nurse-patient relationship. Boston, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon. pp. 167--182.
     
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    Sport: A Biological, Philosophical, and Cultural Perspective.Jay Schulkin - 2016 - Columbia University Press.
    Sports are as varied as the people who play them. We run, jump, and swim. We kick, hit, and shoot balls. We ride sleds in the snow and surf in the sea. From the Olympians of ancient Greece to today's professional athletes, from adult pickup soccer games to children's gymnastics classes, people at all levels of ability at all times and in all places have engaged in sport. What drives this phenomenon? In Sport, the neuroscientist Jay Schulkin argues that biology (...)
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    Science and human rights.Jay Schulkin - 1991 - World Futures 32 (4):243-253.
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    The Pursuit of Inquiry.Jay Schulkin - 1992 - State University of New York Press.
    Shulkin interweaves his dual backgrounds in neurobiological sciences and American pragmatic philosophy to argue that reason is inquiry, an engagement of reality, and can be described in the same terms a scientist uses when conducting and ...
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    The Significance of Joseph Margolis to Late 20th and Early 21st Century Pragmatism.Jay Schulkin - 2022 - Contemporary Pragmatism 19 (2):85-90.
    Joseph Margolis’ philosophical work is both sanguine and fair. It is sanguine because much of it captures the inherent worth and dignity of the human condition. This includes aesthetics, anthropological diversity and history, the diversity of cognitive orientations and objectivity without foundations. Margolis embraces science and naturalism without reductionism. His pragmatism, though, is rooted more in James’ perspectivism, his local nice adaptation, and his relativism than that of Peirce and Dewey and their sense of science and the community of inquirers. (...)
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    Revisiting shyness and sociability: a preliminary investigation of hormone-brain-behavior relations.Alva Tang, Elliott A. Beaton, Jay Schulkin, Geoffrey B. Hall & LouisA Schmidt - 2014 - Frontiers in Psychology 5.
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  45. Hermeneutical Philosophy and Pragmatism: A Philosophy of Science. [REVIEW]Patrick A. Heelan & Jay Schulkin - 1998 - Synthese 115 (3):269-302.
    Two philosophical traditions with much in common, (classical) pragmatism and (Heidegger's) hermeneutic philosophy, are here\ncompared with respect to their approach to the philosophy of science. Both emphasize action as a mode of interpreting experience.\nBoth have developed important categories – inquiry, meaning, theory, praxis, coping, historicity, life-world – and each has\noffered an alternative to the more traditional philosophies of science stemming from Descartes, Hume, and Comte. Pragmatism's\nabduction works with the dual perspectives of theory (as explanation) and praxis (as culture). The hermeneutical (...)
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