Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10011-6
Marcello Barison
This essay interrogates the Freudian conception of the Unheimliche by reinterpreting it through the dual categories of perturbance and animation. Taking Roger Corman’s X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes as a privileged site of analysis, it argues that the film not only stages but radically exposes the very dimension that Freud’s text systematically dissimulates: the nexus between ocularity, animation, and the death drive. Whereas Freud sublimates the perturbing into the castration complex, Corman dramatizes its irreducible link with blinding, thereby rendering visible the removed of psychoanalysis. The essay proposes “Perturbance” as the ontological oscillation immanent to beings, the universal radiation that makes them appear mysteriously alive. From this perspective, psychoanalysis is constituted precisely by its removal of perturbance, whereas cinema, by externalizing psychic nexuses in representation, fulfills the repressed possibility of psychoanalysis without removal. Through a dialogue between Freud, Hoffmann’s Sandman , the Oedipal paradigm, and Corman’s visionary film, the study delineates a psychophysical ontology in which animation is no longer confined to the living subject but revealed as the fundamental energetic quality of all that is.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10024-1
Yang Yang
{"title":"The Interface Theory of Perception: A Review and Discussion","authors":"Yang Yang","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10024-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10024-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145808086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10012-5
Claudio J. Rodríguez Higuera, Juan R. Coca
In the following article, we will use a biosemiotic perspective to consider the emergence of social phenomena, applied specifically to joint agency. Subjectivity and meaning-making are two central capacities of living organisms, and taking these capacities into account allows us to better understand how organisms join in seemingly-end directed, cooperative activities to reach certain goals. By framing the emergence of joint agency as a biosemiotic process, we see how sociality can be taken, in principle, as a biological phenomenon, dependent on the interpretive capabilities of organisms and their communicative properties towards their environments. The usage of signs in organisms, both in perception and production, against the backdrop of persistence of meaningful interactions within the environment and the self, informs how joint agency can be formed. The upshot is a novel proposal to treat how organisms, even simple ones, interact in their communities through semiotic processes.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10018-z
Maurizio Esposito
{"title":"Darwin’s “Horrid” Doubt Revisited: A Critical Reassessment of Evolutionary Arguments against Truth","authors":"Maurizio Esposito","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10018-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10018-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"262 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145680270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10022-3
J. A. Nescolarde-Selva, L. Segura-Abad, H. Gash
{"title":"Gabriel Ciscar y Ciscar and the Decimal Metric System","authors":"J. A. Nescolarde-Selva, L. Segura-Abad, H. Gash","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10022-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10022-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145680269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10007-2
Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti, Elisa Belotti
{"title":"The Structure of the Newton’s Principia Geneva Edition ([1739–1742] 1822), Special Issue","authors":"Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti, Elisa Belotti","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10007-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10007-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145651531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10026-z
Damiano Cantone, Andrea Colombo
{"title":"Science and the Arts: Possible Intersections and New trajectories. Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"Damiano Cantone, Andrea Colombo","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10026-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10026-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"368 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-11DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10008-1
Seyed Kiarash Sadat Rafiei, Mahsa Asadi Anar
{"title":"Art and Individuation: a Processual Framework for Aesthetic Form and Perception","authors":"Seyed Kiarash Sadat Rafiei, Mahsa Asadi Anar","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10008-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10008-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145485619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10010-7
Ian Verstegen
Neuroscientific approaches to aesthetics have been almost uniformly disappointing. They are either shallow, unconvincing, or merely addenda to our knowledge of traditional psychology. Because the nature of the endeavor is to go beyond phenomenology, their weakness is evidenced in their tacit epistemology. They either presume some naïve realism with neural “tuning” or else a kind of parallelism where the nature of interaction is never explained. Most damningly such approaches can never explain the profundity of art. Just as a neuroscience requires a reification function, where holistic brain processes can genetically cause our perceptions, so too in neuroaesthetics we need a reification function. The benefit for art is that, as Arnheim outlined already in 1949, percept formation already explains expression and symbolism. Using examples, I will show how a neuroaesthetics has to go “all in” if it wishes to provide important insights into art.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-04DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10019-y
Riccardo Meucci
Antonio Meucci, a largely overlooked pioneer in telecommunications, played a foundational role in the development of long-distance voice transmission. Yet his contributions have often been marginalized in dominant techno-historical narratives, particularly when compared to Alexander Graham Bell. This paper reexamines Meucci’s invention of the telettrofono through both historical and technological lenses, tracing the continuity between his early electromechanical devices and the architectures embedded in today’s smartphones. By situating Meucci’s work within the broader contexts of the historical record, cultural memory, and historiography of sound technologies, we highlight how competing narratives of innovation emerge and persist. Drawing on both classical accounts of telephone history and contemporary analyses of media and communication, we argue that Meucci’s legacy is not only technical but also symbolic of the ways recognition and omission shape our understanding of innovation. The trajectory from the telettrofono to the smartphone thus illustrates both the resilience of core scientific principles and the evolving cultural frameworks through which inventors are remembered—or forgotten.
安东尼奥·梅奇（Antonio Meucci）是一位在很大程度上被忽视的电信先驱，他在远距离语音传输的发展中发挥了基础性作用。然而，在主流科技历史叙事中，他的贡献往往被边缘化，尤其是与亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔（Alexander Graham Bell）相比时。本文从历史和技术的角度重新审视了Meucci的teletrofano发明，追溯了他早期的机电设备与当今智能手机中嵌入的架构之间的连续性。通过将Meucci的作品置于更广泛的历史记录、文化记忆和声音技术的史学背景中，我们强调了创新的竞争叙事是如何出现并持续下去的。通过对电话历史的经典描述和对媒体和传播的当代分析，我们认为Meucci的遗产不仅是技术上的，而且是对认识和遗漏塑造我们对创新理解方式的象征。因此，从遥控电话到智能手机的发展轨迹既说明了核心科学原理的弹性，也说明了不断发展的文化框架，通过这些框架，发明家被记住或被遗忘。
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