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The philosophical reflection stemming from actual scientific practice has been proven to have the potential to inform ethical thinking and political practice with a more robust foundation than those not necessarily linked to scientific developments.
This is not, of course, to argue for an alleged preeminence of science over speculative philosophical reflection, nor that scientific practices should remain untouched by science-informed philosophy.
On the contrary, history and anthropology of science function as antidotes to similar unfounded views. Recent scientific and technological discoveries require a stronger role for philosophy in public and institutional discussions.
Their practical consequences for humans and non-humans cannot be ignored.

Table of Contents:

DE-HUMANIZING COGNITION, INTELLIGENCE, AND AGENCY. A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS, AND SCIENCE

Introduction
Filippo Batisti

What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Cognition?
Human, Cybernetic, and Phylogenetic Conceptual Schemes
Carrie Figdor

Connecting Unconventional Cognition to Humans
Unification and Generativity
David Colaço

Cognition and Intelligence After the Post-Human Turn
Insights from the Brain-Gut Axis
Roberta Raffaetà

Multispecies Justice and Human Inequalities: Risks in Theorizing Anti-Anthropocentric Politics
Claudia Terragni, Valeria Cesaroni

The Consequences of Enactivism on Moral Considerability in Environmental Ethics
Corrado Fizzarotti

On the Genesis, Continuum, and the Lowest Bound of Selves
Reshma Joy

Extending the Concept of Cognition and Meta-Theoretical Anthropomorphism
Maja Białek

Do Willows Really Weep? Cognition, Its Grammar, and the Problem of Pluralism
Conceptual, Linguistic and Metascientific Disagreements in Recent Science
Filippo Batisti