RESUMEN. En su libro braintrust, la neurofilósofa Patricia churchland expone sus ideas sobre lo que la neurociencia ha aportado hasta el momento al estudio de las bases neurológicas del comportamiento ético de los seres humanos. La tesis principal de la aportación de churchland es que la moralidad se origina en la neurobiología del apego y subraya la relevancia de la oxitocina en el comportamiento cooperativo de los seres humanos, con la pretensión de que la neuroética pueda llegar a constituirse en una ética fundamental. Pero, a mi parecer, ante la propuesta de churchland se abren interrogantes relevantes, como por ejemplo, ¿por qué debemos comportarnos éticamente? o ¿cuáles son los valores morales? En esta contribución valoraremos las principales ideas de churchland para intentar mostrar si la neurociencia puede ayudar a contestar estas cuestiones.PALAbRAS cLAvE: neuroética, ética fundamental, churchland, apego, Gould.
Neuroethics as a Fundamental EthicAbSTRAcT. In her book Braintrust, the neurophilosopher Patricia churchland puts forward her ideas about what neuroscience has contributed so far in the study of the neural bases of ethical behaviour in human beings. The main thesis of churchland's book is that morality has its origins in the neurobiology of attachment and bonding; she stresses the importance of oxytocin in the cooperative behaviour of human beings, and proposes that neuroethics might eventually come to be regarded as a fundamental ethic. In my opinion, however, churchland's proposal raises some pertinent questions, such as, Why should we behave ethically? or, What are moral values? In this paper we assess churchland's main ideas in an attempt to show whether neuroscience can be of help in answering these questions.
This paper analyzes the thought on science and religion of two thinkers that share essentially the same position: Stephen Jay Gould and Karl Popper. We first make a comparison between those passages of their works where this similarity emerges more explicitly. We then recall some of the critiques that have been extended to Gould on this topic; they can be extended to Popper as well. Moreover, we highlight another critical issue-taken from evolutionary theory-that Gould's theorization is not able to handle adequately from the theological standpoint. We finally place Gould's proposal inside Barbour's fourfold typology for the science-religion relationship, and we conclude by recommending further critical reflection on these interdisciplinary issues.
Both Peirce and Popper thought about the darwinian theory of evolution. From different perspectives they coincided in stating that natural selection is a non productive factor of biological evolution. Each of them put forward an active agent other than natural selection in the evolutionary process. 1
Resumen: Sokolowski, Popper y Chomsky coinciden en la tesis según la cual el ser humano es el único animal que usa un lenguaje sintácticamente articulado. Palabras clave: lenguaje animal, lenguaje humano, sintaxis, racional, declaración.
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