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Romén Reyes-peschl

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Science as a quest : Don Quixote, neuroscience and the interrogation of truth

2015

Neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga has wondered whether «scientists, embarked upon their personal quests – their quixotic endeavours – spend their time just thinking». This adjectival invocation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote pitches science as an epic quest that equates scientific rationality with the Don’s delusions. Does science quest after truth in a quixotic, literary way that philosopher Nicholas Maxwell terms «rationalistically neurotic»?

MultidisciplinaryHistory and Philosophy of ScienceInvocationScientific rationalitySociologyEPICInterrogationEpistemology
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La ciència com a cerca. Don Quixot, la neurociència i l'interrogatori de la veritat

2014

El neurocientifi c Rodrigo Quian Quiroga es va preguntar si «els cientifi cs, embarcats en cerques personals i quixotesques croades, es passen el temps pensant». Aquesta invocacio adjectival del Quixot de Cervantes presenta la ciencia com una cerca epica que equipara la racionalitat cientifi ca amb els deliris de Don Quixot. Es la cerca de la veritat per part de la ciencia, quixotesca i literaria, un «racionalisme neurotic», en paraules del fi losof Nicholas Maxwell?

neurociènciaQuixot; cerca; neurociència; cervell; BorgesMultidisciplinarycervellquestbrainliteratureliteraturabúsquedacerebroQuijote; búsqueda; neurociencia; cerebro; BorgesneuroscienceBorgesHistory and Philosophy of ScienceQuixotcercaQuixoteQuixote; quest; neuroscience; brain; Borges.QuijoteBorges.neurociencia
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