1st Edition
Philosophy of Plant Cognition Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The Philosophy of Plant Cognition: Introduction Peter Schulte, Gabriele Ferretti, and Markus Wild
Part 1: Cognition and Representation
1. Why Plant Cognition Is Not (Yet) Out of the Woods Carrie Figdor
2. What Deception Reveals about Plant Cognition Marc Artiga
3. Are Plants Representational Systems? Peter Schulte
Part 2: Sensation and Perception
4. Not All Sensory Systems Are Information Channels: Outliers from Plant Biology and Beyond Todd Ganson
5. Plants Sense. But Only Animals Perceive Mohan Matthen
Part 3: Learning, Behavior, Affordances
6. No Brain? No Problem: Towards an Ecological Comparative Psychology P. Adrian Frazier
7. Ecological Plant Learning Johnny Lee and Aditya Ponkshe
8. On Plant Affordances Gabriele Ferretti
Part 4: Consciousness
9. Making Sense of Plant Sense Brian Key and Deborah J. Brown
10. A Liberal View on Plant Consciousness Markus Wild
Biography
Gabriele Ferretti is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergamo (Italy). He is the author of many monographs and journal articles in philosophy of mind and of neuroscience.
Peter Schulte is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Umeå University (Sweden). He is the author of Mental Content (2023) and numerous articles on the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.
Markus Wild is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basel (Switzerland). He mainly works on animal minds and animal ethics.
"This volume provides many insightful ideas to address the multiple philosophical debates sparked by the topic of plant cognition. Highly recommended to those who are willing to get into a deep discussion concerning the possibility of non-animal minds."
Miguel Segundo-Ortin, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
