Paco Calvo’s Publications

Books

2023 Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence. Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence W.W. Norton, 2023.

Edited Books

2020 Sarah Robins, John Symons & Paco Calvo. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology (2nd edition). 2020.
2014 Paco Calvo & John Symons. The architecture of cognition: Rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn’s Systematicity Challenge. MIT Press. 
2008 Paco Calvo & Toni Gomila. Handbook of cognitive science: An embodied approach. Elsevier.

Book Chapters

2022 Paco Calvo & Natalie Lawrence. Learning to see ‘green’ in an ecological crisis. In Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: An Exploration of Urgent Matters, Lucy Weir (ed.), Springer.
2021 Paco Calvo. Rompiendo con el zoocentrismo: Hacia una psicología ecológica vegetal. In Affordances y ciencia cognitiva: Introducción, teoría y aplicaciones, Heras-Escribano, M., Lobo, L. & Vega, J. (eds.), Tecnos.
2020 P. Calvo, S. Robins & J. Symons (eds.), (book chapter with M. Heras-Escribano). The philosophy of plant neurobiology. In The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, second edition , Routledge
2018 P. Calvo, M. Gagliano, F. Baluška, G. Witzany (eds.), (book chapter with Charles I. Abramson). General Issues in the Cognitive Analysis of Plant Learning and Intelligence. In Memory and Learning in Plants, Springer.
2018 Raja, V., Calvo, P., and Alcaraz-León, M. J. Ecoaesthetics and the Prospects of a Cognitive Science of Art. In A. Scarinzi (Ed.), Recasting Aesthetic Experience: Emotions and the “Continuity Principle” (pp. 219-260). Göttingen, Germany: Cuvillier Verlag. 
2014 Symons J. & Calvo P. Computing with Bodies: Morphology, Function, and Computational Theory. In Brain Theory: Essays in Critical Neurophilosophy, Charles Wolfe (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan: pp. 91-106.

Refereed Journal Articles

2023 Segundo-Ortin, M., & Calvo, P. Plant sentience? Between romanticism and denial: science. Animal Sentience, 33(1).
2022

Shomali, A., Vafaei Sadi, M. S., Bakhtiarizadeh, M. R., Aliniaeifard, S., Trewavas, A., & Calvo, P. Identification of intelligence-related proteins through a robust two-layer predictor. Communicative & Integrative Biology 15(1), 253-264.
2022 Khattar J, Calvo P. et al. Understanding Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Plant Intelligence: Is it a Matter of Science, Language, or Subjectivity? Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 18:41.
2022

Lee, J., & Calvo, P. Enacting plant-inspired robotics. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 15.
2021

Bouteau F et al. Our Sisters the Plants? Notes from Phylogenetis and Botany on Plant Kinship Blindness. Plant Signaling & Behavior 16: 12.
2021 Segundo-Ortin, M., & Calvo, P. Consciousness and cognition in plants. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, e1578.
2021 Calvo P, Trewavas A. Cognition and intelligence of green plants: Information for animal scientists. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 564, 78-85
2021 Linson A, Ponkshe A, Calvo P. Of plants and principles. Biology & Philosophy.
2021 Mediano PAM, Trewavas A, Calvo, P (2021) “Information and Integration in Plants: Towards a Quantitative Search for Plant Sentience”, Journal of Consciousness Studies 28, 80-105.
2021 Calvo P, Baluška F, Trewavas A. Integrated information as a possible basis for plant consciousness. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 564, 158-165.
2020 Raja, V., Silva, P. L., Holghoomi, R., and Calvo, P. The Dynamics of Plant Nutation. Scientific Reports 10: 19465. 
2020 Linson A., Calvo P. Zoocentrism in the weeds? Cultivating plant models for cognitive yield. Biology & Philosophy 35, 49.
2020 Frazier PA, Jamone L, Althoefer K, Calvo P. Plant bioinspired ecological robotics. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 7:79.
2020 Calvo P., Gagliano M., Souza G., Trewavas A. Plants are intelligent, here’s how. Annals of Botany 125, 11-28.
2020 Calvo P., Trewavas A. Physiology and the (Neuro)biology of Plant Behaviour: A Farewell to Arms. Trends in Plant Science 24.
2020 Trewavas A., Baluška F., Mancuso S., Calvo P. Consciousness Facilitates Plant Behavior. Trends in Plant Science 24.
2017 Calvo P., Friston K. Predicting Green: Really Radical (Plant) Predictive Processing. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 14, 20170096.
2017 Calvo P., Sahi V., Trewavas, A. Are plants sentient? Plant, Cell & Environment 40, 2858-2869
2017 Calvo P. What is it like to be a plant? Journal of Consciousness Studies 24, 205-227
2017 Raja, V., and Calvo, P. Augmented Reality: An Ecological Blend. Cognitive Systems Research 42: 58-72. 
2016 Calvo P. The philosophy of plant neurobiology: a manifesto. Synthese 193, 1323–1343.
2016 Calvo P, Baluška F, Sims A. ‘Feature detection’ versus ‘predictive coding’ models of plant behaviour. Frontiers in Psychology 7,1505.
2015 Calvo P, Baluška, F. Conditions for minimal intelligence across eukaryota: A cognitive science perspective. Frontiers in Psychology 6, 1329.
2011 Calvo P, Keijzer F. Plants: Adaptive behavior, root brains and minimal cognition. Adaptive Behavior 19(3): 155-171
2010 García Á. & Calvo P. Is cognition a matter of representations?: Emulation, teleology, and time-keeping in biological systems. Adaptive Behavior 18(5): 400-415.
2009 Calvo P. & García Á. Where is cognitive science heading? Minds and Machines 19: 301-318
2007 Calvo P. The quest for cognition in plant neurobiology. Plant Signaling and Behavior 2: 208-211

Commentaries, Preprints and Others

2022 Paco Calvo & Abramson Charles I. Unresolved issues of behavioral analysis in invertebrates. In Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling
2021 Adam Linson, Aditya Ponkshe & Paco Calvo. On plants and principles. Biology & Philosophy (Commentary on Birch, Ginsburg and Jablonka’s target article “Unlimited Associative Learning and the Origins of Consciousness: A Primer and Some Predictions”, Biology & Philosophy 36: 19)
2018 Calvo P. Caterpillar/basil-plant tandems. In Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling.
2017 Calvo, P., Raja, V., and Lee, D. Guidance of Circumnutation of Climbing Bean Stems: An Ecological Exploration. BioRxiv. 
2017 Paco Calvo, Vaidurya Sahi, Anthony Trewavas. Could plants be sentient?, bioRxiv – the preprint server for Biology), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Encyclopedia Entries

2018 Calvo P. Plantae. In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, J. Vonk, T.K. Shackelford (eds.), Springer.