Neurolaw between epistemology and ontology

Phenomenology and cognitive neurosciences

Bibliographic Data

ID22176351
AuthorsDavide Perrotta (0000-0001-5426-734X, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume4
Issue2
Pages163-184
Publication date2021-08-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAoristo - International Journal of Phenomenology Hermeneutics and Metaphysics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2526-592X • E-ISSN: 2526-592X
PublisherUniversidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana - UNIOESTE (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.48075/aoristo.v4i2.27981
OpenAlexW4240576824
LanguageEN
References cited9

In the first part of the paper, I present some problematic concepts in cognitive neuroscience, from aphilosophical point of view, like causality and Law. These concepts open ontological questions, thatwe develop proposing a mechanistic interpretation of cognitive neuroscience, compare to aphenomenological investigation of human experience. General descriptions of mental states andintentionality allow us to investigate different forms of causation, not reducible to “material causes”.By contrast, cognitive neurosciences are specialized to investigate the latter form, beinginterpretable both like a bound and an advantage. In the second part of the paper we will resort tothe presented epistemological descriptions in order to investigate social cognition. We will discussthe case or moral cognition in order to preserve emergent properties in the human experience, in acomplementary way with” cognitive mechanisms”. This argumentation will help us to better definethe Neurolaw field of researches, allowing us to discern different forms of responsibility of thehuman acts with regard to different causal factors

Argumentation theory · Causation · Cognition · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Ontology · Computer Science · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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