Results for 'Santiago Ramón Y. Cajal'
960 found
Order:
1 filter applied
- La Psicología de Don Quijote de la Mancha y el Quijotismo.SantiagoRamón Y.Cajal -2004 -Arbor 179 (705):1-12.«Universalmente admirada es la soberbia figura moral del hidalgo manchego. D. Alonso Quijano el bueno, convertido en andante caballero por la sugestión de los disparatados libros de caballería, representa, según se ha dicho mil veces, el más perfecto símbolo del honor y del altruismo. Jamás el genio anglo-sajón, tan dado á imaginar caracteres enérgicos y originales, creó personificación mas exquisita del individualismo indómito y de la abnegación sublime. Pero puntualicemos brevemente los rasgos psicológicos sobresalientes del protagonista de la novela inmortal.….No categories
- Cajal beyond the brain: DonSantiago contemplates the mind and its education: 20 essays ofSantiago Ramón yCajal, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Santiago Ramón Y.Cajal -2015 - Indianapolis, IN: Corpus Callosum. Edited by Lazaros Constantinos Triarhou.This compilation brings together 20 essays ofSantiagoRamón yCajal (1852-1934), the neuroscientist par excellence and 1906 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, on topics beyond neuroanatomy, most appearing in English for the first time. The annotated collection makes available in one handy volumeCajal's ideas on psychology, art and education, still current and still relevant, derived from his books La Psicología de los Artistas, Charlas de Café, El Mundo Visto a los Ochenta Años, Pensamientos Pedagógicos and (...) Escritos Inéditos. An acute observer of the intellectual and social scene of the avant-garde,Cajal emerged in 20th-century Spain in a further role as a philosopher and educator. The contents bespeakCajal's inquiry into the varieties of human experience and shed new light on the breadth of his genius, imagination and passion, helping us to rethink what we thought we already understood about DonSantiago's own mind. (shrink)
- SantiagoRamón yCajal and the Spanish historiography of science.Ximo Guillem-Llobat -2015 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 53:111-113.
- SantiagoRamón yCajal y Pío del Río Hortega.Alberto Sánchez Álvarez-Insúa -1998 -Arbor 161 (634):151-176.En octubre de 1944, nueve meses antes de su fallecimiento, Pío del Río Hortega pronunció en Montevideo una conferencia en el Homenaje aRamón yCajal en el décimo aniversario de su muerte organizado por la Institución Cultural Española de Uruguay. Aunque dicha conferencia fue publicada, lo restringido de la tirada y su carácter no venal han dado lugar a que sea desconocida en España. Reproducirla ahora completa la bibliografía de Río Hortega, enriquece los estudios sobreCajal (...) y esclarece la relación entre ambos científicos que quedaron reflejadas en las memorias de Río Hortega, El maestro y yo, editadas por el CSIC. (shrink)No categories
- SantiagoRamón yCajal «Praeceptor Mundi».Enriqueta Lewy Rodríguez -1998 -Arbor 161 (634):141-150.Cajal realizó un soberano esfuerzo para que la ciencia de España figurase entre las naciones próceres de Europa. La teoría neuronal deCajal ha significado una verdadera revolución no sólo en la histología sino también en la fisiología. La moderna tecnología electrónica también es cajalista. La independencia genética neuronal por él descubierta cuando tenía 37 años marcó en su vida la defensa de la verdad a ultranza y la independencia de juicio en todos los aspectos sociales, filosóficos y (...) mundiales de su época. (shrink)
- Recollections of My Life.SantiagoRamón yCajal, E. Horne Craigie, Juan Cano.George Sarton -1938 -Isis 28 (1):118-122.
- La época deSantiagoRamón yCajal.Pedro García Barreno &Juan Fernández Santarén -2004 -Arbor 179 (705):13-110.En el desarrollo de las ciencias naturales, el siglo XVIII mostró, entre otras características, el intento de levantar el inventario del reino de los seres vivos. Pero es claro que la actividad de clasificar y sistematizar equivale a una descripción analítica de la naturaleza y presupone un prolijo y paciente estudio de datos y de hechos; de ahí que no sorprenda que la abrumadora cantidad de detalles predispusiera a los investigadores a descuidar un tanto la búsqueda de lo universal en (...) la naturaleza.…. (shrink)No categories
- SantiagoRamón yCajal: Los tónicos de la voluntad. Reglas y consejos sobre investigación científica. [REVIEW]Antonio López -2006 -Daimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 39:200-202.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Book Review:SantiagoRamón yCajal, Advice for a Young Investigator. [REVIEW]William C. Summers -2004 -Journal of the History of Biology 37 (3):595-596.
- Book Review:SantiagoRamón yCajal, Advice for a Young Investigator. [REVIEW]Neely Swanson &Larry W. Swanson -2004 -Journal of the History of Biology 37 (3):595-596.
- (1 other version)Inducing visibilities: An attempt atSantiagoRamón yCajal's aesthetic epistemology.Erna Fiorentini -2011 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42 (4):391-394.
- Ramón yCajal. Explorador de Selvas Vírgenes.Agustín Albarracín Teulón -1997 -Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 14:171.Se intenta poner de manifiesto, en este artículo, a través de un somero análisis de la biografía y de la obra deSantiagoRamón yCajal, como su contribución a la historia de la histología no fue un fruto del azar, sino de una profunda investigación propiciada por su deseo de saber.No categories
- Ariadna's thread in the labyrinth of nerve action orSantiagoRamón Ycajal's law of dynamic polarization.José Luis González Recio -2007 -Ludus Vitalis 15 (27):17-36.No categories
- Un discurso deRamón yCajal sobre El Quijote.José Luis González Quirós -2006 -Arbor 182 (718):237-244.El artículo es un breve análisis del discurso deSantiagoRamón yCajal titulado Psicología de Don Quijote y el quijotismo, un texto poco conocido que fue una de las piezas principales producida en torno al tema con motivo del III centenario del Quijote. El discurso deRamón yCajal le fue encargado por el Colegio Médico de San Carlos, y se pronunció en Madrid el día 9 de Mayo de 1905. Las ediciones existentes contienen (...) algunas erratas e inexactitudes. Nuestro análisis expone las ideas deRamón yCajal en relación con la situación de la ciencia española y con los remedios que es necesario poner en práctica y con el espíritu que debe animarlos para poner luego en relación las ideas deRamón yCajal con las de Unamuno y Ortega, los dos principales autores españoles que escribieron sobre el tema en aquellos mismos años, subrayando la coincidencia entre Unamuno yRamón yCajal y la llamativa distancia de Ortega con las ideas de nuestro histólogo en relación con la ciencia. (shrink)No categories
- Cajal's Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System bySantiago Ramon yCajal; Raoul M. May; Javier DeFelipe; Edward G. Jones. [REVIEW]Maria Trumpler -1994 -Isis 85:543-544.
- Cajal: Key Psychological Factors in the Self-Construction of a Genius.Nuria Anaya-Reig -2018 -Social Epistemology 32 (5):311-324.This study presents abundant empirical evidence to sustain that the genius ofSantiagoRamón yCajal was the result of a conscious effort of self-construction, the key factors of which were psychosocial, some of which are also found in other highly creative scientists. In this case, new factors appear that have not been observed in other geniuses, such as a substantial vicarious and self-regulating capacity and a high degree of perceived self-efficacy. The procedure used is the narrative (...) analysis of essentially autobiographic texts. The theoretical framework on which the study is based is the psychology of science and Bandura cognitive-social theory. (shrink)
- Challenging the Experimentalist Dogma: Empirical Incommensurability in early Neuroscience.Sergio Daniel Barberis,Santiago Ginnobili &Ariel Jonathan Roffé -2025 -Estudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 72:208-232.In this article we scrutinize what can be called an "experimentalist dogma" presupposed in Pablo Melogno's analysis of empirical incommensurability in the chemical revolution. According to Melogno, the fact that experimental methods were preserved throughout the chemical revolution was an indication that there were no relevant perceptual differences between Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier. In order to refine Melogno's general analysis, we will present a taxonomy of varieties of empirical incommensurability and discuss their relationships. To exemplify this categorization, and to (...) show its metatheoretical adequacy, we will apply it to the neuronist revolution, that is, to the process of discovery of the neuron in the late 19th and early 20th centuries within neuroanatomy, taking as our main case study the controversy between Camillo Golgi andSantiagoRamón yCajal. From the analysis of the controversies regarding dendritic spines and stellate cells of the cerebellum, in particular, we question the experimentalist dogma, highlighting how, in these controversies, the conservation of experimental practices does not guarantee the similarity of perceptual contents. Moreover, we will argue that, all other experimental conditions being equal, differences in experiential content between Golgi andCajal are best explained by differences in their commitments to incompatible conceptual schemes. (shrink)
- Cajal’s Law of Dynamic Polarization: Mechanism and Design.Sergio Daniel Barberis -2018 -Philosophies 3 (2):11.SantiagoRamón yCajal, the primary architect of the neuron doctrine and the law of dynamic polarization, is considered to be the founder of modern neuroscience. At the same time, many philosophers, historians, and neuroscientists agree that modern neuroscience embodies a mechanistic perspective on the explanation of the nervous system. In this paper, I review the extant mechanistic interpretation ofCajal’s contribution to modern neuroscience. Then, I argue that the extant mechanistic interpretation fails to capture the (...) explanatory import ofCajal’s law of dynamic polarization. My claim is that the definitive formulation ofCajal’s law of dynamic polarization, despite its mechanistic inaccuracies, embodies a non-mechanistic pattern of reasoning (i.e., design explanation) that is an integral component of modern neuroscience. (shrink)
- Pasado y futuro de la obra científica de Río Hortega.Cesar Aguirre Viami -2005 -Arbor 181 (714):203-206.El artículo realiza un recorrido de la biografía de Pío del Río Hortega y de la génesis de su obra científica, así como de su relación con Nicolás Achúcarro ySantiagoRamón yCajal.No categories
- Cajal and consciousness: scientific approaches to consciousness on the centennial of Ramón yCajal's Textura.Pedro C. Marijuán &Santiago Ramón Y.Cajal (eds.) -2001 - New York: New York Academy of Sciences.Machine generated contents note:Cajal and Consciousness: Introduction. By PEDRO C. MARIJUAN1 -- Part I. Consciousness, One Hundred Years after Textura -- Progress in the Neural Sciences in the Century afterCajal (and the Mysteries -- That Remain). By THOMAS D. ALBRIGHT, THOMAS M. JESSELL, -- ERIC R. KANDEL, AND MICHAEL I. POSNER11 -- Part II. Biological Complexity and the Emergence of Consciousness -- Consciousness, Reduction, and Emergence: Some Remarks. -- By MURRAY GELL-MANN41 -- The Epistemic Paradox of (...) Mind and Matter. By HAROLD J. MOROWITZ50 -- The Conscious Cell. BY LYNN MARGULIS55 -- Complexity and Tinkering. By FRANCOIS JACOB71 -- Consciousness, the Brain, and Spacetime Geometry. By STUART HAMEROFF. 74 -- Consciousness, the Brain, and Spacetime Geometry: An Addendum-Some -- New Developments on the Orch OR Model for Consciousness. -- By ROGER PENROSE105 -- Part III. From Primary to Higher-level Consciousness -- Consciousness: The Remembered Present. By GERALD EDELMAN111 -- Consciousness and the Binding Problem. By WOLF SINGER123 --Cajal on Neurons, Molecules, and Consciousness. By JEAN-PIERRE CHANGEUX 147 -- A Neuronal Model of a Global Workspace in Effortful Cognitive Tasks. By -- STANISLAS DEHAENE, MICHEL KERSZBERG, AND JEAN-PIERRE -- CHANGEUX152 -- Consciousness and the Brain: The Thalamocortical Dialogue in Health and -- Disease. By RODOLFO LLINAS AND URS RIBARY166 -- The Neuroanatomy of Phenomenal Vision: A Psychological Perspective. -- ByPETRA STOERIG176 -- Co-evolution of Human Consciousness and Language. By MICHAEL A. ARBIB 195 -- From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words-From -- Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulations of Perceptions. -- By LOTFI A. ZADEH221 -- Part IV. Closing Remarks -- Who WasCajal? By ALBERTO PORTERA-SANCHEZ253 -- Index of Contributors259 -- Subject Index261. (shrink)
- Pío del Río Hortega. Una figura egregia de las ciencias neurológicas.Javier Vargas Castrillón,Isabel Gallego Villaescusa,María Del Carmen García-Andrade Fernández,Eugenia Jareño Borrego &Luis Carretero Albiñana -2005 -Arbor 181 (714):215-219.El artículo describe la trayectoria científica deSantiagoRamón yCajal y Pío del Río Hortega y la trascendencia de sus descubrimientos en las ciencias neurológicas, así como el estado actual de la investigación neurológica.No categories
- Butterflies of the Soul:Cajal's Neuron Theory and Art.Susan Goetz Zwirn -2015 -Journal of Aesthetic Education 49 (4):105-119.[M]y attention was drawn to the flower garden of the grey matter, which contained cells with delicate and elegant forms, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, the beating of whose wings may someday... clarify the secret of mental life. Art can actually facilitate scientific understanding, even discovery. Art can be, and has been, the entryway to vision and the understanding of natural phenomena as demonstrated in its role in the development of neuron theory. While developing a course on current brain (...) research and learning and then projects for S.T.E.A.M. curriculum, I was repeatedly drawn to the work ofSantiago Ramon yCajal, whose life work provides an extraordinary example of the.. (shrink)
- Con el pensamiento vivo deCajal cien años después.Alberto Sánchez Álvarez-Insúa -2007 -Arbor 183 (727):631-635.El artículo analiza el nacimiento de la Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas (JAE) como primer planteamiento de diseñar y estructurar la política científica y la investigación en España y su continuidad tras la guerra civil con la creación del CSIC y, tras la democracia, el diseño de una política científica puesta al servicio de los españoles.No categories
- Organicist and Mechanistic Metaphors in the Early Days of Neuroscience.Sergio Daniel Barberis -2023 -Metatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 14 (1):33-46.In his work, Michael Ruse underscores the significance of metaphors in science, with a particular focus on the “abyss” between mechanistic and organicist metaphors in the history and practice of biology. Ruse posits that the Darwinian revolution involved a radical “metaphor shift” in biology, transitioning from organicism to mechanism. In this article, I set out several objectives (i) to assess whether the neuronist revolution, pivotal in the inception of neuroscience, involved a shift from an organicist metaphor to a mechanistic one; (...) (ii) to highlight the indispensable influences of organicist metaphors inCajal’s neuron doctrine; and, consequently, (iii) to challenge the idea of an abyss between mechanistic and organicist metaphors, at least, in neuroscience. (shrink)No categories
- Pío del Río Hortega en la Universidad de Valladolid.Juan Riera Palmero -2005 -Arbor 181 (714):181-197.El artículo describe la creación en 1873 de la primera Cátedra de Histología en la Universidad de Valladolid y sus sucesivos profesores: Aureliano Maestre de San Juan y Leopoldo López García, la institucionalización de la Histología y la Anatomía Patológica como disciplinas, y los inicios académicos de Isaac Costero y Pío del Río Hortega. Se incluyen, en facsímil, los ejercicios de Licenciatura de Río Hortega.No categories
- Pensamiento Medieval Hispano. Homenaje a HoracioSantiago - Otero.RafaelRamón Guerrero -1999 -Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 16:322.En esta ponencia se exponen los diversos caminos de acceso a la Verdad que históricamente se han dado en el Islam: la tradición, la razón y el corazón. Estos dos últimos dan fugar a la filosofía y a fa mís tica. A la vez que se señalan algunas coincidencias entre ellas, también se ponen de relieve las divergencias que las separan.
- Forma y función de la explicación contrafáctica en la obra fisiológica deRamón yCajal.Sergio Daniel Barberis -2020 - InFilosofía e Historia de la Ciencia en el Cono Sur. São Carlos, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil: pp. 72-83.En este trabajo sostengo que la concepción mecanicista no captura la relevancia explicativa de la ley de polarización dinámica deCajal. La relevancia explicativa de la ley se fundamenta en su rol como principio de diseño neuronal. Como tal, la ley nos brinda acceso epistémico a intervenciones ideales, conceptualmente posibles, sobre la localización de los diversos componentes de los centros nerviosos, y nos permiten evaluar el impacto de esas intervenciones sobre las condiciones de viabilidad del organismo.
- Review of S. Ramon yCajal's Neuere Beiträge zur Histologie der Retina. [REVIEW]C. Ladd Franklin -1899 -Psychological Review 6 (2):212-214.No categories
- Recuerdos de mi vidaSantiago Ramon y CajalCharlas de cafeSantiago Ramon yCajal.Raoul M. May -1926 -Isis 8 (3):498-503.
- Proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje en tiempos de pandemia.PedroRamónSantiago -2022 -Human Review. International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional de Humanidades 11 (3):1-9.Se analiza el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje durante la pandemia por Covid-19 (2020-2021), en una universidad de Tabasco, México. La investigación fue cuantitativa, de tipo descriptivo-exploratoria. La información se recolectó a través de cuestionarios enviados por Google forms a 70 profesores y 391 alumnos. Se encontraron modificaciones en las planeaciones, en el proceso enseñanza y evaluaciones hechas por los docentes, integrando criterios que antes de la pandemia no eran valorados. Los factores que intervinieron en el aprendizaje de los alumnos fueron el (...) exceso de tareas (80%); dificultad de adaptación al nuevo sistema de enseñanzas (46.6%); y, las constantes fallas eléctricas (66.6%). (shrink)No categories
- History of Biological Sciences and Medicine S.Ramón yCajal, Recollections of my Life. Trans, by E. Horne Craigie with the assistance of J. Cano. Pp. xi + 638. Reprint of 1937 edition. Cambridge, Mass, and London: M.I.T. Press, n.d. [1966], 75s. [REVIEW]Edwin Clarke -1967 -British Journal for the History of Science 3 (4):407-408.No categories
- Santiago el Justo y Tomás el Mellizo (Evangelio de Tomás, Log. 12 y 13).Ramón Trevijano Etcheverría -1992 -Salmanticensis 39 (2):97-119.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- El nuevo modelo de santidad de Martín de Tours y su relación con el comienzo de la Via Turonensis del Camino deSantiago.JoséRamón Hernández Figueiredo -2017 -Salmanticensis 64 (3):403-435.Este artículo nos adentra en el estudio de la figura de san Martín de Tours, el apóstol de la Galia, cuya influencia se deja sentir en toda Europa, especialmente en España. Se trata del primer santo no mártir después de la paz de Constantino. Resultó ser soldado por fuerza, obispo por obligación, monje por gusto. Representa un nuevo modelo de santidad. De eremita evoluciona a la vida cenobítica, como padre de monjes; y como obispo es el defensor civitatis además del (...) gran evangelizador del mundo rural de la Galia. A su alrededor se generan otros santos. Por otra parte, Tours es la ciudad en que comienza la via turonensis del célebre Camino deSantiago. El ApóstolSantiago y Martín de Tours comparten culto y compiten en santidad como grandes taumaturgos. (shrink)No categories
- "Las filosofías de Platón y Aristóteles ". Traducción, introducción y notas de RafaelRamón Guerrero. Apeirón Ediciones, colección Eidos, Madrid, 2017. 172 pp. [REVIEW]Santiago Escobar Gómez -2017 -Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 34 (3):739-740.No categories
- El legado deCajal frente a Albareda: las ciencias biológicas en los primeros años del CSIC y los orígenes del CIB.María Jesús Santesmases -1998 -Arbor 160 (631-632):305-332.En este trabajo se estudian los antecedentes al Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. A través de documentación del archivo histórico del CSIC se exploran los orígenes de los institutos que entrarían a formar parte del nuevo centro: el InstitutoRamón yCajal, el Instituto de Endocrinología Experimental y el Instituto de Microbiología. La marginación a la que se sometió a los discípulos deCajal y a sus trabajos contrasta con el apoyo que (...) recibían otras áreas biológicas y biomédicas, como la microbiología y la edafología. (shrink)No categories
- Dual Function of DNA Sequences: Protein-Coding Sequences Function as Transcriptional Enhancers.Naama Hirsch &Ramon Y. Birnbaum -2015 -Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 58 (2):182-195.The human genome consists of more than 3 billion base pairs built from four different nucleotides that hold the genetic information for the entire organism. The genome is commonly divided into coding and noncoding DNA sequences, with coding DNA sequences defined as those that can be transcribed into mRNA and translated into proteins, or genes. The genetic code determines the impact of a nucleotide change in a gene on the protein sequence and function, and it is essential to understanding the (...) genetic basis of many congenital diseases. The Human Genome Project has accelerated our understanding about the genome function. We now know that our genome consists of 20,000–25,000 genes that occupy only.. (shrink)
- An Anatomy of Thought the Origin and Machinery of Mind.Ian Glynn -1999 - Oxford University Press.Love, fear, hope, calculus, and game shows-how do all these spring from a few delicate pounds of meat? Neurophysiologist Ian Glynn lays the foundation for answering this question in his expansive An Anatomy of Thought, but stops short of committing to one particular theory. The book is a pleasant challenge, presenting the reader with the latest research and thinking about neuroscience and how it relates to various models of consciousness. Combining the aim of a textbook with the style of a (...) popularization, it provides all the lay reader needs to know to participate in the philosophical debate that is redefining our attitudes about our minds. Drawing on the rich history of neurological case studies, Glynn picks through the building blocks of our nervous system, examines our visual and linguistic systems, and probes deeply into our higher thought processes. The stories of great scientists, like Ramon yCajal, and famous patients, like Sperry's split-brained epileptics, illuminate the scientific issues Glynn selects as essential for understanding consciousness. Some might argue that his lengthy explorations of natural selection overemphasize evolutionary explanations of psychological phenomena, but they must also agree that evolutionary psychology has distanced itself mightily from social Darwinism in recent years and merits a reappraisal. The great consciousness debate may form the core of the 21st-century Zeitgeist; get ready for it with An Anatomy of Thought. -Rob Lightner From Publishers Weekly How do we know? What do we think? How could a philosophical problem-'the mind-body problem,' say-induce a headache? What can evolutionary theory, molecular biology, the history of medicine and experimental psychology tell us about the features of human consciousness, and (once again) how do we know? Glynn, a physician and Cambridge University professor, meticulously attempts to answer these questions and more, setting forth the results of all sorts of research relevant to our brains-from 19th-century dissections to Oliver Sacks-like case studies, work with monkeys and supercomputers, and the enduring puzzles of philosophy, which he rightly saves for near the end. After explaining evolution by natural selection and 'clearing away much dross,' Glynn lays out the experiments and theories that have shown 'how nerve cells can carry information about the body, how they can interact' and how sense organs work; demonstrates the 'mixture of parallel and hierarchical organization' in our brains and 'the striking localization of function within it'; considers where neuroscience is likely to go; and admits that, among the many fields of exciting research just ahead, 'we can be least confident of progress toward a complete, scientific explanation of our sensations and thoughts and feelings.' Other recent explaining-the-brain books have sometimes advanced simplistic, or implausibly grand, claims about the nature and features of consciousness in general. Instead, Glynn offers a patient, informative, well-laid-out researcher's-eye view of what we have learned, how we figured it out and what we still don't know about neurons, senses, feelings, brains and minds. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal The nature of consciousness, which perennially troubles the minds of scientists and philosophers, is the subject of an ever-growing body of literature. Two of the latest entries approach the topic from different perspectives. Glynn, a professor of physiology and head of the Physiological Laboratory at Cambridge, offers a comprehensive summary of what we know about the brain-both its evolution and its mechanisms. Among the topics he covers are natural selection, molecular evolution, nerves and the nervous system, sensory perception, and the specific structures responsible for our intellect. Using the mechanisms involved in vision and speech as models, Glynn skillfully describes various neurological deficiencies that can lead to 'disordered seeing' and problems with the use of language. He carefully distinguishes what we know through experimental evidence from what we know through the observation of patients with neurological damage. He also describes some of the major theories that attempt to explain why these structures arose. While his book concentrates on the structures that make up the mind, Glynn is well aware that some physical events appear explicable only in terms of conscious mental events-a situation that conflicts with the laws of modern physics. Only briefly, however, does he consider the various approaches that have been taken to deal with the issues of mind/body and free will. In contrast, this is the primary focus of The Physics of Consciousness. After reviewing the fundamentals of classic physics, Walker (who has a Ph.D. in physics) summarizes elements of the new physics in which our knowledge of space, time, matter, and energy are all dependent on the moment of observation. Walker explores the meaning of consciousness as a characteristic of the observer. In this context both the observer and the act of measurement are critical. In essence, Walker leads his reader on a journey through his concept of a 'quantum mind,' which can both affect matter (including other minds) and can be affected by other distant matter/minds. To break up what would otherwise be an extremely dense text, Walker also relates the very touching story of the loss of his high-school sweetheart to leukemia. Indeed, it is his memory of their relationship that drives Walker to seek an understanding of ultimate reality. At times, he has a tendency to be dogmatic-as when he concludes, 'our consciousness, our mind, and the will of God are the same mind.' While An Anatomy of Thought is appropriate for most academic libraries, the Physics of Consciousness will be most accessible to readers with some knowledge of advanced physics. -Laurie Bartolini, Illinois State Lib., Springfield Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist The codiscoverers of natural selection-Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace-disagreed over the possibility of finding an evolutionary explanation for the human mind. Glynn here argues Darwin's side of the debate, tracing an eons-long path of development starting from simple amino acids floating in primal seas and extending through the erect hominids in which the powers of a massive brain first manifest themselves. Patiently adducing evidence of an evolutionary origin for the underlying molecular machinery, Glynn dissects the nerve centers that make possible speech and hearing, sight, and reading. Pressing deeper, he lays bare the cortical foundations of personality. But those who deal with the mind must attend also to the arguments advanced by philosophers. And it is when he turns from dendrites to syllogisms (especially the vexing mind-body paradox) that Glynn's empirical reasoning fails him. In the end, he concedes his perplexity in trying to conceive of an evolutionary origin for human consciousness. This concession may set the shade of Alfred Wallace to chortling, but it will draw readers into an honest confrontation with a profound enigma. Bryce Christensen. (shrink)
- Brain Projective Reality: Novel Clothes for the Emperor.Arturo Tozzi,James F. Peters,Andrew A. Fingelkurts,Alexander A. Fingelkurts &Pedro C. Marijuán -2017 -Physics of Life Reviews 21:46-55.First of all, we would like to gratefully thank all commentators for the attention and effort they have put into reading and responding to our review paper [this issue] and for useful observations that suggest novel applications for our framework. We understand and accept that some of our claims might appear controversial and raise skepticism, because the overall neural framework we have proposed is difficult to frame in established categories, given its strong multidisciplinary character. To make an example, Elsevier is (...) publishing the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) 2017 Special Issue Collection. However, our paper could not fully fit in any of their Special Issues—attention, motivation, behavior; sensory and motor systems; novel treatments and translational neuroscience; genetics and epigenetics; learning and memory; neurodegenerative disorders and ageing; developmental neuroscience; neuronal, glial and cellular mechanisms; neuroendocrine and autonomic nervous systems; psychiatry and mental health; methods and techniques. Perhaps because our paper was mathematically, physically, biologically (neuroscientifically), and phenomenologically motivated from the start? Nevertheless, venturing in novel, fresh, testable proposals is badly needed in contemporary neuroscience, so to break into “the utter darkness of the inner mechanism of psychic acts… during the production of the concomitant phenomena of perception and thought, namely, feelings, consciousness and volition”—asCajal had already observed in his opus magnus ‘Textura’. But as he soberly confessed: “This ideal is still very distant” (Ramon yCajal, 1899-1904, p. 1,141). In the pursuit of that very ideal, neuroscience and psychology have had, and continue to have, a plethora of movements and schools of thought: behaviorism, cognitivism, neural Darwinism, social constructivism, Bayesian optimization...In our paper, we propose to go a step further, via the notion of topodynamics, towards “projectionism.” In what follows, trying to elucidate the main features of this Emperor’s new clothing, we proceed with the responses to the comments received. (shrink)
- SNARE proteins as molecular masters of interneuronal communication.Danko D. Georgiev &James F. Glazebrook -2010 -Biomedical Reviews 21:17-23.In the beginning of the 20th century the groundbreaking work of Ramon yCajal firmly established the neuron doctrine, according to which neurons are the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system. Von Weldeyer coined the term “neuron” in 1891, but the huge leap forward in neuroscience was due toCajal’s meticulous microscopic observations of brain sections stained with an improved version of Golgi’s la reazione nera (black reaction). The latter improvement of Golgi’s technique made it (...) possible to visualize the arborizations of single neurons that were “colored brownish black even to their finest branchlets, standing out with unsurpassable clarity upon a transparent yellow background. All was sharp as a sketch with Chinese ink”. The high quality of both the visualization of individual nerve cells and the work performed on studying the anatomy of the central nervous system lead Ramon yCajal to the conclusion that axons output the nervous impulses to the dendrites or the soma of other target neurons. (shrink)
- Érótica y saber: A propósito de un cuento de Las mil y una noches.RafaelRamón Guerrero -1999 -Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 16:15-34.Las Mil y una noches es una colección de cuentos. En muchos de ellos se exponen saberes que se han ido elaborando en diversos pueblos a lo largo de la historia. Uno de ellos recoge la concepción que sobre el amor como tendencia hacia el saber creó y desarrolló la filosofía griega desde Platón. En este artículo se recuerda brevemente este proceso de construcción a través de la filosofía griega, el mundo cristiano y el islam medieval para esbozar finalmente el (...) cuento de las Mil y una noches. (shrink)No categories
- Cuerpo. lenguaje y (bio)política.Santiago Pich &Sidinei Pithan da Silva Y. Paulo Fensterseifer -2015 - In Eduardo Galak & Emiliano Gambarotta,Cuerpo, educación, política: tensiones epistémicas, históricas y prácticas. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Hombre y muerte en el Islam.RafaelRamón Guerrero -2007 -Veritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 52 (3):36-46.At several times, the Koran mentions the death that affects all men. Perhaps that was the reason why the question of suicide and of voluntary death arose very soon in the Islamic world. From the century IX, this problem became object of consideration, caused by the impact of the Ancient Philosophy: it seems that Socrates' figure exercised a certain influence through the versions of his death, accepted voluntarily, which arrived to the Islamic world. Socrates' death favoured the reflection among many (...) Muslim thinkers. KEY WORDS – Islam. Socrates. Voluntary death. Suicide. (shrink)
- Filosofías árabe y judía.RafaelRamón Guerrero -2001 - Madrid: Editorial Síntesis.No categories
- De nuevo sobre Al-Fârâbî y Maimónides: nota sobre los "Ocho capítulos" o Ética de Maimónides.RafaelRamón Guerrero -2005 -Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 12:43-48.En esta nota sólo se pretende apuntar la influencia que Al-Fârâbî ejerció sobre Maimónides, especialmente en la obra de éste titulada Los ocho capítulos.
- En el centenario de E. Gilson: las fuentes árabes del agustinismo avicenizante y el "Perí noû" de Alejandro de Afrodisia: Estado de la cuestión.RafaelRamón Guerrero -1984 -Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 4:83-106.
- Ideología y escepticismo en George Santayana.Rafael Cejudo Córdoba Y.Ramón Román Alcalá -2012 -Contrastes: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 17.ResumenDado que George Santayana mostró simpatía hacia regímenes no democráticos y hay una faceta escéptica en su filosofía, una cuestión ambigua es la de su auténtica ideología política. Para responderla hay que abordar la sugerente teoría crítica de las ideologías que esbozó en su Dominations and Powers, y tener en cuenta su concepción de la filosofía política. Como resultado relativizamos su simpatía hacia regímenes no democráticos, pero al mismo tiempo señalamos las debilidades de su posición política personal así como las (...) ventajas y límites de su doctrina de las ideologías.Palabras claveFilosofía política, liberalismo, poder, virtud políticaAbstractAs George Santayana showed sympathy to non-democratic regimes and there is a skeptical side in his philosophy, the question of which was his real political ideology becomes elusive. To answer it we should turn to the suggestive critical theory of ideologies he outlined in his Dominations and Powers, and take into account his conception of political philosophy. As a result, we attenuate his sympathy to non-democratic regimes but we also point out the flaws of his personal political position as well as the pros and cons of his doctrine of ideologies.KeywordsPolitical philosophy, liberalism, power, political virtue. (shrink)No categories
- Ethical issues of brain-computer interfaces. Perspectives from a personalist bioethics.Sergio Ramon Götte -2024 -Veritas: Revista de Filosofía y Teología 59:7-34.Resumen Las interfaces cerebro-computadora (ICCs) son tecnologías que proveen herramientas para la comunicación entre el ser humano y las computadoras. Dado que las nuevas técnicas asociadas a ICCs podrían influir en la autorregulación emocional, la memoria autobiográfica, el sentido del yo, la identidad, la autonomía, la autenticidad y las atribuciones de responsabilidad presentan importantes objeciones éticas. Entender las consecuencias a largo plazo de estas nuevas tecnologías puede ser difícil. Por lo tanto, los aspectos éticos vinculados a las ICCs necesitan ser (...) continuamente revisados a la par de los avances técnicos en el área. El personalismo ontológicamente fundado se ha formalizado como un camino de reflexión que tiene como referencia una antropología que defiende el valor de la vida física corpórea, la relación libertad-responsabilidad y la adecuada interacción individuo y sociedad y brinda pautas éticas que permitan formular normas de conducta acordes con la dignidad de la persona humana. Por lo tanto, en este artículo se aplican los principios de la bioética personalista al ámbito de las ICCs, de modo tal de dar directrices generales para la acción que puedan contribuir a elaborar un juicio ético acerca del desarrollo y uso de estas neurotecnologías. Abstract Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are technologies that provide tools for communication between humans and computers. Since the new techniques associated with BCIs could influence emotional self-regulation, autobiographical memory, sense of self, identity, autonomy, authenticity, and attributions of responsibility present important ethical objections. Understanding the long-term consequences of these innovative technologies can be difficult. Therefore, the ethical aspects linked to BCIs need to be continuously reviewed in line with technical advances in the area. Ontologically grounded personalism has been formalized as a path of reflection that has as its reference an anthropology that defends the value of corporeal physical life, the relationship between freedom and responsibility, and the appropriate interaction between the individual and society. This approach provides ethical guidelines for the formulation of norms of conduct in accordance with the dignity of the human person. Therefore, in this article, the principles of personalist bioethics are applied to the field of BCIs, in order to provide general guidelines for action that can contribute to the elaboration of an ethical judgment about the development and use of these neurotechnologies. (shrink)No categories
- Reaching Out to Survivors: Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines (A) and (B).Andrea L.Santiago &Fernando Y. Roxas -2014 -Journal of Business Ethics Education 11:317-324.This case illustrates the dilemma facing a medium-sized family business, EMME Logistics and Security Agency that wanted to do more for the victims of the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan. About a third of the company’s personnel had family in the hardest hit areas and were anxious to go to find out if their relatives had survived the wreckage caused by the strongest typhoon ever to hit landfall in the Phillipines. Committing the company’s resources to the relief operation would behampered by a (...) damaged infrastructure and the breakdown of civil order. There would also be significant costs associated with disrupting normal business operations and diverting resources. How much humanitarian assistance should businesses shoulder in response to such events? How should businesses better plan for such disasters? (shrink)
- Los estudios de filosofía árabe en España.RafaelRamón Guerrero -2010 -Daimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 50:123-136.Desde que el Islam fue conocido en la Europa de la Edad Media hubo un gran interés por la filosofía desarrollada en el mundo árabe. Después de los primeros contactos con esa filosofía en la Península Ibérica en los siglos medievales, ha habido que esperar a finales del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX para que los estudios de filosofía árabe resurgieran en España. Aquí se pasa revista a las principales aportaciones realizadas por estudiosos españoles a lo largo del siglo (...) XX y primera década del siglo XXI. (shrink)
- Managing Diversity in Academe.Grace Y. Kao,Ramón Luzárraga,Darryl Trimiew &Christine E. Gudorf -2008 -Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 28 (2):75-95.THE OCCASION FOR THE ESSAYS RESPONDING TO MANAGING DIVERSITY IN academe follows in response to a challenge issued by Miguel De La Torre in a 2006 plenary panel regarding the invisibility of minority scholars' work in SCE publications. That 2006 panel, which included presentations by De La Torre, Melanie Harris, Gabriel Salgado, and Darryl Trimiew, stimulated discussions in both the Women's Caucus and the meeting of the Board of Directors; this set of essays from a 2008 plenary session and a (...) concurrent session held later in the meeting is the result of those earlier discussions. The two sessions both address diversity: these essays feature minority voices presenting specific proposals for how minority scholarship should and should not be used by majority and other minority scholars; the concurrent session featured a discussion by majority scholars on what whites must do to diversify the society. Our hope is that these essays and the discussions they generate will shed more light on this extremely complex and important issue for the SCE and the institutions in which members work. (shrink)No categories
| 1 — 50 / 960 |
Off-campus access
Using PhilPapers from home?
Create an account to enable off-campus access through your institution's proxy server or OpenAthens.
Monitor this page
Be alerted of all new items appearing on this page. Choose how you want to monitor it:
 Email |  RSS feed |
Editorial team
General Editors:
David Bourget (Western Ontario)
David Chalmers (ANU, NYU)
Area Editors:
David Bourget
Gwen Bradford
Berit Brogaard
Margaret Cameron
David Chalmers
James Chase
Rafael De Clercq
Ezio Di Nucci
Esa Diaz-Leon
Barry Hallen
Hans Halvorson
Jonathan Ichikawa
Monte Johnson
Michelle Kosch
Øystein Linnebo
Paul Livingston
Brandon Look
Manolo Martínez
Matthew McGrath
Michiru Nagatsu
Susana Nuccetelli
Giuseppe Primiero
Jack Alan Reynolds
Darrell P. Rowbottom
Aleksandra Samonek
Constantine Sandis
Howard Sankey
Jonathan Schaffer
Thomas Senor
Daniel Star
Jussi Suikkanen
Aness Kim Webster
Other editors
Contact us
Learn more about PhilPapers
David Bourget (Western Ontario)
David Chalmers (ANU, NYU)
Area Editors:
David Bourget
Gwen Bradford
Berit Brogaard
Margaret Cameron
David Chalmers
James Chase
Rafael De Clercq
Ezio Di Nucci
Esa Diaz-Leon
Barry Hallen
Hans Halvorson
Jonathan Ichikawa
Monte Johnson
Michelle Kosch
Øystein Linnebo
Paul Livingston
Brandon Look
Manolo Martínez
Matthew McGrath
Michiru Nagatsu
Susana Nuccetelli
Giuseppe Primiero
Jack Alan Reynolds
Darrell P. Rowbottom
Aleksandra Samonek
Constantine Sandis
Howard Sankey
Jonathan Schaffer
Thomas Senor
Daniel Star
Jussi Suikkanen
Aness Kim Webster
Other editors
Contact us
Learn more about PhilPapers
Home |New books and articles |Bibliographies |Philosophy journals |About PhilPapers |API |Contact us |Code of conduct
PhilPapers logo byAndrea Andrews andMeghan Driscoll.
This site uses cookies and Google Analytics (see ourterms & conditions for details regarding the privacy implications).Use of this site is subject toterms & conditions.
All rights reserved byThe PhilPapers Foundation
Server: philpapers-web-786669fdf6-gl7x6 uwo