Abstract

ALMADA, Leonardo Ferreira. A neurociência afetiva como orientação filosófica: por uma ressignificação neurofilosófica do papel das emoções na estruturação do comportamento. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2011, vol.25, n.49, pp.201-226. ISSN 1982-596X.

My intention here is to discuss the significance of emotions in the structuring of moral reasoning and in the processes of decision-making. I propose to establish a philosophical and scientific design of the contemporary discussion about the relations of interaction and integration between perceptive/cognitive and affective/emotional processes. In other to accomplish this task, I assume the proposal of Jaak Panksepp’s Affective Neuroscience, which proposes, as a neurophilosophical model, to situate the role of basic emotion in the behavior. From the support of its conceptual background, I intend to establish the possible relations between mental states, neural states and behavior, in order to outline and propose a solution to the conceptual, philosophical and scientific difficulties that inhere in the relations between neurobiological ability and subjective experiences. Finally, I propose to show, in the context of the cognitive sciences, the advantage of the emergentism in relation to identity and reductionist theories.

Keywords : Cognitive Processes; Emotional Processes; Neural States; Moral Reasoning and Behavior.

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