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Neuroni Specchio
Severini, Eleonora
2012
Abstract
This essay takes into account mirror neurons with the aim to provide an introduction to the main steps of their discovery and a critical discussion of such finding. First, I will present the debate originated within the scientific community focusing on the presence, or not, in human beings of this kind of nervous cells. Then, I will examine the discussion about their relevance in cognition and in particular in mind reading process. This will be the occasion to assess the philosophical implications, and more precisely the anthropological and ethical ones, of mirror neurons. My purpose is indeed to present an example of how science and philosophy may work together, in order to show the weakness of some anthropological paradigms and to gain a more adequate conception of human being.
Journal
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Eleonora Severini, "Neuroni Specchio", in "APhEx 5", 2012, pp. 35
Languages
it
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