Open AccessCritical Neurohermeneutics
Author(s) -
Javier Gracia Calandín
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pensamiento
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2386-5822
pISSN - 0031-4749
DOI - 10.14422/pen.v77.i295.y2021.003
Subject(s) - hermeneutics , neuroethics , foundation (evidence) , epistemology , naturalism , philosophy , sociology , psychology , neuroscience , political science , law
The article supports the proposal for a critical neurohermeneutics. For this purpose it begins by considering the recently coined term «neurohermeneutics» and the various meanings it contains. The article then explores neurohermeneutics as the hermeneutics of neuroscience, and identifies some of the main limitations of naturalistic neuroethics that arise from the deficit of critical hermeneutics in its approaches. Finally, critical hermeneutics is defended as the necessary foundation of neuroethics.