Cognitive Biology

Gennaro Auletta is Aggregate Professor in the Gregorian University, Researcher in the Cassino University, and Scientific Director of the STOQ Project. He is also visiting professor in the University of Notre Dame, associate of the Faraday Institute of the Cambridge University, and member of the Linnean Society of London. After taking his degree in philosophy at La Sapienza University in Rome he took his Ph.D and his Postdoc in Philosophy at the same university. His philosophical interests are logic, philosophy of nature (with special connections with quantum mechanics and biology), philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. In science, his main interests are in quantum mechanics (quantum information, foundations, interpretation). For the last ten years his research interests have addressed issues in the treatment of information by biological systems (from bacteria to human brain), in cognitive neurosciences.

• 1. Quantum Mechanics as a General Framework ; 2. Classical and Quantum Information and Entropy ; 3. The Brain: An Outlook ; 4. Vision ; 5. Dealing with Target's Motion and Our Own Movement ; 6. Complexity: A Necessary Condition ; 7. General Features of Life ; 8. The Organism as a Semiotic and Cybernetic System ; 9. Phylogeny ; 10. Ontogeny ; 11. Epigeny ; 12. Representational Semiotics ; 13. The Brain as an Information-Control System ; 14. Decisional, Emotional and Cognitive Systems ; 15. Behavior ; 16. Learning ; 17. Memory ; 18. The Basic Symbolic Systems ; 19. What Symbols Are ; 20. Intentionality and Conceptualization ; 21. Consciousness ; 22. Development and Culture ; 23. Language ; 24. Mind and Brain (Body) ; 25. Final Philosophical Remarks

Auletta integrates in an overarching treatise several scientific topics of greatest currency: informatics, evolutionary biology, neurobiology and cognitive science, and navigates the diverse topics with amazing breadth and depth.