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HOW BEST TO ‘GO ON’? PROSPECTS FOR A ‘MODERN SYNTHESIS’ IN THE SCIENCES OF MIND EDITED BY : Kevin Moore and John Cromby PUBLISHED IN : Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers Copyright Statement About Frontiers © Copyright 2007-2016 Frontiers Media SA. All rights reserved. Frontiers is more than just an open-access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering All content included on this site, approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, video/audio clips, is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal downloads, data compilations and software, is the property of or is opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and licensed to Frontiers Media SA permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to (“Frontiers”) or its licensees and/or subcontractors. 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With their The above represents a summary unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers only. For the full conditions see the Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical Conditions for Authors and the Conditions for Website Use. advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers ISSN 1664-8714 Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial ISBN 978-2-88919-906-8 DOI 10.3389/978-2-88919-906-8 Office:[email protected] Frontiers in Psychology 1 August 2016 | How Best to ‘Go On’? HOW BEST TO ‘GO ON’? PROSPECTS FOR A ‘MODERN SYNTHESIS’ IN THE SCIENCES OF MIND Topic Editors: Kevin Moore, Lincoln University, New Zealand John Cromby, University of Leicester, UK Psychology straddles areas from the biological to the social and cultural. Within that vast range, there have been recent explosions of interest in neuropsychol- ogy, genetics and epigenetics, and the evolutionary bases of mindedness. Correspondingly, there have been conceptual innovations and new empirical evidence in relation to the embodied, social and dis- cursive processes supporting mind and personhood. Simultaneously, awareness of developmental processes and their dynamic interweaving of genetic, physio- logical, neurological, social and cultural elements has also increased. Might such developments help ‘connect the dots’ between diverse aspects of mindedness and the con- texts within which it arises? Whilst it seems clear that mind is co-constituted of both biological and socio-cultural processes, how might we bring these disparate realms of knowledge together? In a number of these areas, suggestive integrative possibilities have Photograph by John Cromby ‘Engineers been explored (e.g., predictive processing, embodied of the Imagination’ and situated cognition, dynamic developmental sys- tems theory) and insights such as a focus on action, ‘knowledge as skills’, embeddedness and connectivity have been pursued across a range of disciplines. This edited collection of articles bring together such possibilities – and others - in the same forum in order to provide an opportunity to re-visit a recurring discussion within theoretical psychology: The claimed lack of - and potential for - theoretical synthesis and unity. While the chapters range over a number of areas of research, this collection is focused on current prospects for conceptual synthesis within - or convergence of research between - aspects of mind Frontiers in Psychology 2 August 2016 | How Best to ‘Go On’? and mindedness. As is clear from the contributions, it highlights integrative conceptual pro- posals that emphasize action-orientation, process, embeddedness and connectivity – especially between explanatory ‘levels’. Beyond specific proposals for integration, several of the contributions explicitly or implicitly expose broader questions about the purpose of psychological research, the epistemological and ontological commitments required, and the relevant social, political and economic contexts within which such research is performed. This is perhaps inevitable since any aim for synthesis of various understandings of mind will - or should - lead to consideration of the general impli- cations, beyond the ‘science’, that follow from an integrated account of mind and mindedness. Whether or not the contributions in this volume provide insights into profitable paths towards greater theoretical synthesis in the sciences of mind or, alternatively, provide grist for the mill of renewed skepticism over the potential or even desirability of such synthesis is unpredictable. Whichever the outcome, we feel sure that they will help provoke future productive research in, and thinking about, the sciences of mind. Kevin Moore and John Cromby Associate Guest Editors Citation: Moore, K., Cromby, J., eds. (2016). How Best to ‘Go On’? Prospects for a ‘Modern Synthesis’ in the Sciences of Mind. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88919-906-8 Frontiers in Psychology 3 August 2016 | How Best to ‘Go On’? Table of Contents 05 Editorial: How Best to “Go On”? Prospects for a “Modern Synthesis” in the Sciences of Mind Kevin Moore and John Cromby 07 Beyond different levels: embodiment and the developmental system Peter J. Marshall 12 A plea for a more dialectical relationship between personal and subpersonal levels of analysis Michele Di Francesco and Massimo Marraffa 15 Toward psychiatry as a ‘human’ science of mind. The case of depressive disorders in DSM-5 Marco Castiglioni and Federico Laudisa 27 Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): the case of complexity and “context- sensitivity” in vision Éric Laurent 43 Neurophenomenology revisited: second-person methods for the study of human consciousness Francisco A. Olivares, Esteban Vargas, Claudio Fuentes, David Martínez-Pernía and Andrés Canales-Johnson 55 An evolutionary Ockham’s razor to reciprocity Irene Berra 59 Toward an experimental account of argumentation: the case of the slippery slope and the ad hominem arguments Marco Lillo-Unglaube, Andrés Canales-Johnson, Gorka Navarrete and Claudio Fuentes Bravo 65 Cognition from life: the two modes of cognition that underlie moral behavior Tjeerd C. Andringa, Kirsten A. Van Den Bosch and Nanda Wijermans 83 The neurosciences and the search for a unified psychology: the science and esthetics of a single framework Henderikus J. Stam Frontiers in Psychology 4 August 2016 | How Best to ‘Go On’? EDITORIAL published: 30 May 2016 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00766 Editorial: How Best to “Go On”? Prospects for a “Modern Synthesis” in the Sciences of Mind Kevin Moore 1* and John Cromby 2 1 Faculty of Environment,