What Makes Us Think?: A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain. By Jean‐Pierre  Changeux and, Paul  Ricoeur; translated by, M B  DeBevoise. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $29.95. x + 335 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–691–00940–6. [Originally published as Ce Qui Nous Fait Penser: La Nature et la Règle, by Editions Odile Jacob, 1998.] 2000.

2002 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-482
Author(s):  
Apostolos P Georgopoulos
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Brain

scholarly journals Still searching for the pineal gland? Reading the Ricoeur-Changeux debate in terms of Meillassoux’s critique of correlationism

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaco Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Pineal Gland ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Interdisciplinary Character ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

The spectacular advance in neurobiology and neuroscience in general ensures that the question of the relation between the brain and the mind remains actual. The dialogue between philosopher Paul Ricoeur and neuro-biologist Jean-Pierre Changeux that took place around 1998 remains an important contribution in this regard, primarily due to the interdisciplinary character of the conversation. This article attempts an interpretation of both Ricoeur’s and Changeux’s positions in their dialogue using the interpretive lens provided by Quentin Meillassoux’s notion of correlationism. It is argued that such an interpretation highlights the similarities between Ricoeur’s and Changeux’s positions that might not otherwise be apparent, and also calls for a broadening of the terms of reference of the dialogue beyond those accepted by both Ricoeur and Changeux. The article subsequently investigates what a broadening of the terms of reference of the approach to the mind-brain problem might entail in terms of Meillassoux’s anti-correlationism, but rejects this approach in favour of what might be called hyper-correlationism.

scholarly journals Hope and Tragedy: insights from religion in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Amy Daughton
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Religious Thinking

The trajectory of Paul Ricoeur’s thought from the fallible to the capable human person offers a hopeful vision of human nature constitutive of our shared political life. Yet, by necessity, hope arises in response to the tragic, which also features in Ricoeur’s work at the existential and ethical levels. At the same time hope and tragedy represent concepts at the limit of philosophical reasoning, introducing meeting points with religious discourse. Exploring those meeting points reveals the contribution of religious thinking to the understanding of hope and tragedy and establishes Ricoeur’s political thinking as ultimately shaped by their interplay.

Catherine Malabou: The Plastic Human

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Watkin
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Self ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Human Trait ◽  
The Brain

The transition from Badiou and Meillassoux to Malabou leads us away from thinking the human in terms of a ‘host capacity’ and proposes instead a ‘host substance’: the brain. The first half of this chapter argues that Malabou manages to avoid a host capacity account of the human by developing a notion of plasticity not as a uniquely human trait but as the possible transformation of all traits. This position harbours an irreducible ambiguity, however, between an escape from the host capacity approach and its hyperbolisation, and so what Malabou offers us can be construed as nothing less than a host meta-capacity. The second half of the chapter explores Malabou’s determination to initiate a new plastic encounter between philosophy and neuroscience, eschewing both the ‘cognitivism’ of neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and the ‘Continental’ resistance to neuroscience of Paul Ricœur in order to elaborate her own ‘neuronal materialism’ in terms of ‘destructive plasticity’. In an attempt to develop this neuronal materialism in a way that avoids plasticity becoming one more defunct metaphor of the human, the chapter concludes by offering a reading of ‘the self’ in Malabou not as a metaphor but as a movement or tension of metaphoricity.

scholarly journals La ética colaborativa del displazement. La bioética del capitalismo cuestionada por la ética responsiva

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 119-138
Author(s):  
María Teresa Paulín Ríos ◽  
Mario Cantú Toscano
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Physical Discipline ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Philosophical Writings

Se propone en este texto una comparación entre la ética de la competencia y la ética de la colaboración, basada en dos formas distintas de entender la naturaleza humana. Las autoras se basan en la filosofía de Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Lévinas y Piotr Kropotkin para elaborar una ética de la colaboración, puesta en práctica mediante una disciplina física llamada displazement, la cual puede aportar herramientas filosóficas para actores de la escena actual.The Collaborative Ethics of Displazement. The Bioethics of Capitalism Challenged by Responsive EthicsAbstractThis article compares the ethics of competition with the ethics of collaboration, based on two distinct ways of undestanding human nature. The authors base their argument on the philosophical writings of Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Lévinas and Piotr Kropotkin, in order to propose an ethics of collaboration. This approach is put into practice through a physical discipline called displazement, which may provide philosophical tools for actors.Recibido: 29 de abril de 2020Aceptado: 12 de noviembre de 2020

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