2024/01/25 by Nicolás Hinrichs, Hinrichs, Nicolás, Noah Guzmán +1 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · #Embodied and Extended Cognition #Epistemology #FOS: Biological sciences #Metaphysics #Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC) #Ontology #Philosophy #Philosophy and History of Science #Philosophy of mind #Philosophy of science #Physicalism #Political science #Politics #Pragmatism #Realism #Realm #Reification (Marxism) #Scientific realism #q-bio.NC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.14049
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University)
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The ontogeny of cognitive neuroscience has emerged within the hegemony of substance ontology. Persistent physicalist influences are described through three developmental hallmarks that yielded epistemic attractors - promoters and perpetuators of material-discursive practices oriented toward reification and self-vindication across the interdisciplinary spectrum which, as a whole, has been driven away from its pretensions to scientific realism. In virtue of a desire for a radical return thereto, we adopt a metaphysic stance akin to pragmatism, and briefly make the case that such concerns have sociopolitical implications extending far beyond the realm of mere philosophical interest.