DSpace Collection:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/182712024-03-28T12:13:53Z2024-03-28T12:13:53ZWidening the extended mind theory: the mind as a capacityhttps://hdl.handle.net/10171/184672020-03-03T19:35:58Z2011-06-07T12:52:00ZTitle: Widening the extended mind theory: the mind as a capacity
Abstract: This a theoretical poster. Its explores the way for a comprehensive understanding of the human mind. Philosophers and neuroscientists often reject the claim that their theory of the mind and of the mental phenomena is in any way ‘reductive’. This adjective typically involves the crucial negligence of essential features of the subjective and a too narrow scientific outlook. I show here that by adequately connecting the theory of the extended mind (EM) with the philosophical theory of capacities or abilities, which is attributed to Aristotle (IV b. C.), such negligence can be avoided. A more precise, integrative and open-ended view of the mind emerges then, a view which I will only sketch here.2011-06-07T12:52:00ZNeuroscience and subjectivity. A proposal for cooperation between neuroscience and some philosophical traditionshttps://hdl.handle.net/10171/184662020-03-23T17:16:13Z2011-06-07T12:50:11ZTitle: Neuroscience and subjectivity. A proposal for cooperation between neuroscience and some philosophical traditions
Abstract: One of the main challenges of biology consists in articulating a coherent view of the central nervous system and its structure.
To this end, neuroscience has emerged as an interdisciplinary project which looks to integrate the different disciplines.2011-06-07T12:50:11ZDoes Libet’s experiment really speak about freedom?https://hdl.handle.net/10171/184652020-03-03T19:35:56Z2011-06-07T12:47:35ZTitle: Does Libet’s experiment really speak about freedom?
Abstract: In this poster I discuss the experiments of Libet and colleagues on conscious decisions, but my conclusions are also valid for other experiments inspired in it. The discussion concentrates on the concept of freedom which is presupposed in the experiment, and especially by those who interpret its results as a denial of the existence of human free will. I aim to show how a philosophical approach is also needed in the designs and interpretation of experimental data when important non-empirical human features are at stake.2011-06-07T12:47:35ZEliminativism and the Interdisciplinary Dynamism of Neurosciencehttps://hdl.handle.net/10171/183882020-03-23T17:16:13Z2011-06-03T10:09:55ZTitle: Eliminativism and the Interdisciplinary Dynamism of Neuroscience
Abstract: Racine et al’s works about contemporary neuroscience in the media show how the neuro-essentialist approach to the mind-brain problem is rooted in occidental societies. Some clear connections could be established between this approach and the philosophical eliminativism of folk psychology. In this poster I examine some traits shared by both theoriess, more concretely those who may affect the interdisciplinary dynamism of Neuroscience.2011-06-03T10:09:55Z