2024/01/25 by Nicolás Hinrichs, Hinrichs, Nicolás, Noah Guzmán +1
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · #Embodied and Extended Cognition #FOS: Biological sciences #Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC) #Philosophy and History of Science
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.14049
openalex publication_date 2024/01/25 · openalex created_date 2024/01/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.