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  1. Normas sociales.Hugo Viciana - forthcoming - Enciclopedia Online de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica.
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    The Use of Supernatural Entities in Moral Conversations as a Cultural-Psychological Attractor.Tamás Tófalvy & Hugo Viciana - 2009 - Proceedings of the New York Academy of Sciences 1167 (1):230-240.
    Social behavior in most human societies is characterized by the following of moral rules explicitly justified by religious belief systems. These systems constitute the diverse domain of human sacred values. Supernatural entities as founders or warranty of moral principles may be seen as a form of “conversation stoppers,” considerations that can be dropped into a moral decision process in order to prevent endlessly reconsidering and endlessly asking for further justification. In this article we offer a general naturalistic framework toward answering (...)
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    À quoi bon les représentations chez l'animal?Hugo Viciana - 2011 - In Jean-Michel Roy, Valérian Chambon, Benjamin Putois, Nadège Bault, Norbert Maïonchi-Pino & François-Xavier Pénicaud (eds.), Peut-on se passer de représentations en sciences cognitives? Paris: De Boeck Supérieur. pp. 141-151.
    L’étude scientifique du comportement animal s’est en partie développée en réaction à des excès « anthropomorphiques», où l’observateur projetait chez l’animal une forme de psychologie populaire. En conséquence, le langage théorique des représentations mentales a été largement proscrit de l’éthologie pendant une bonne partie du xxe siècle. Même si la méthodologie du behaviorisme – centrée sur l’observation et la mesure du comportement – constitue toujours la règle, l’avènement de la révolution cognitive, les études de terrain de longue durée sur des (...)
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    Hacer de la necesidad virtud: Apuntes sobre las transformaciones de la Ética por el influjo de las ciencias empíricas.Hugo Viciana - 2009 - In Concepción Diosdado, Francisco Rodríguez Valls & Juan Arana (eds.), Neurofilosofía: Perspectivas Contemporáneas. Madrid: Plaza y Valdés. pp. 11-36.
    Se plantea la cuestión de los lazos entre la teoría ética y las ciencias empíricas del comportamiento. En particular a modo de estudios de caso se pasa revista a la relevancia de ciertos descubrimientos sobre el comportamiento en la formulación de teorías sobre la virtud, el carácter o la voluntad. Desde ahí se pretende esbozar un procedimiento general de cambio progresivo y parcial de términos teóricos, descriptivos y normativos, de la teoría ética por nuevos términos apoyados en el aumento de (...)
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  5. Is God an Adaptation?Hugo Viciana & Pierrick Bourrat - 2011 - Philosophia 39 (2):397-408.
    In this critical notice to Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God, we focus on the question of whether Wright’s God is one which can be said to be an adaptation in a well defined sense. Thus we evaluate the likelihood of different models of adaptive evolution of cultural ideas in their different levels of selection. Our result is an emphasis on the plurality of mechanisms that may lead to adaptation. By way of conclusion we assess epistemologically some of Wright’s more (...)
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    The animal variations: When mechanisms matter in accounting for function.Hugo Viciana & Nicolas Claidiere - 2007 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (4):424-425.
    We contend that Ramsey et al.'s definition of animal innovation sensu process may be partially misleading when investigating mechanisms underlying animal innovation. By excluding social learning from the of innovation, they may be reproducing a dichotomous schema that does not accurately correspond to our knowledge of the acquisition of novel behavioral variants. This gives us some reason to doubt the functional specification of the defined process of innovation.
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