"Biological Theory" is a quarterly journal devoted to theoretical advances in the fields of
ISSN: 1555-5542
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* [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/biot "Biological Theory"] on the MIT Press website
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Biological psychiatry — Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system. It is interdisciplinary in its approach and draws on sciences such as… … Wikipedia
Theory of mind — is the ability to attribute mental states beliefs, intents, desires, pretending, knowledge, etc. to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs, desires and intentions that are different from one s own.[1] Though there are… … Wikipedia
Biological interaction — Biological interactions are the effects organisms in a community have on one another. In the natural world no organism exists in absolute isolation, and thus every organism must interact with the environment and other organisms. An organism s… … Wikipedia
Biological immortality — refers to a stable rate of mortality as a function of chronological age. Some individual cells and entire organisms in some species achieve this state either throughout their existence or after living long enough. This requires that death occur… … Wikipedia
Biological anthropology — Biological anthropology, or physical anthropology is a branch of anthropology that studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of… … Wikipedia
Biological naturalism — is a monist theory about the relationship between mind and body (i.e. brain), and hence an approach to the mind body problem. It was first proposed by the philosopher John Searle in 1980 and is defined by two main theses: 1) all mental phenomena… … Wikipedia
Biological thermodynamics — is a phrase that is sometimes used to refer to bioenergetics, the study of energy transformation in the biological sciences. Biological thermodynamics may be defined as the quantitative study of the energy transductions that occur in and between… … Wikipedia
Biological determinism — Biological determinism, also called genetic determinism, is the hypothesis that biological factors such as an organism s individual genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) completely determine how a system behaves or changes over… … Wikipedia
Theory-based semantics — is a phrase used by Richard L. Ballard to describe knowledge representations that are based on the premise that the binding element of human thought is theory, and that theory constrains the meaning of concepts, ideas and thought patterns… … Wikipedia
Biological motion — is a term used by social and cognitive neuroscientists to refer to the unique visual phenomenon of a moving, animate object. Often, the stimuli used in biological motion experiments are comprised of just a few moving dots that reflect the motion… … Wikipedia
