Corpus Curiosum: tackling today’s young critical thinking for tomorrow ‘s best Neuroscience

SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ A; ÁBALO-RODRIGUEZ I; TURÉGANO-LÓPEZ M; TRINCHERO MF

Granada

Congreso; IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience; 2023

Ever since Popper presented the problem of demarcation in the early 20th century, philosophy has seek to find characteristics that distinguish science from other forms of knowledge. One of the most recent proposals is to shift the focus from scientific knowledge (i.e., what characteristics such knowledge must fulfill) to those who are producing it: scientists (i.e., what distinguishing characteristics do scientists have as such). Thus, the epistemological superiority that is often attributed to science would reside in one feature shared by the population that produces it: the "scientific attitude". Thus, the scientific attitude, i.e. the ability to change one's mind when facing opposing evidence and being engaged in looking for new evidence, becomes a must that guarantees the quality and essence of science. But is this scientific attitude present in the current scientific context? As soon as the scientist is understood as an inactive subject, embedded in a particular context which is rooted in a specific culture, the question is understood in relation to the context. An analysis of the context allows us to understand how the variables that characterize it are, in fact, hindering scientists from training and developing their scientific attitude.