167) Calderón, E.; Gargiulo, P.A. Neurosciences: Heidegger and indeterminacy. En: Heidegger and the Neuroscience. Conferencia On Lline. 22 a 24 de Abril de 2022. Organizado por la Prof. Dra. Francesca Brencio. Sociedad Martin Heidegge

CALDERÓN, J.E.; CRESPO, R.; LAFUENTE, J.V.; GARGIULO, P.A.

Sevilla

Congreso; Heidegger and the Neuroscience.; 2022

Phenolab. Universidad de Sevilla.

Nowadays neurosciences have tried to project themselves toward man’s behavior with explanatory claims. Neuroscience is a scientific discipline grounded on empirical validations in a framework of causality in the physical-chemical-mathematical style; as such, it attempts a projection on the psychic dimension of man following the guidelines established since modernity (Gargiulo and Crespo, 2022). Modern scientific method, originally thought for the physical-mathematical sciences, was imposed as a universal rule. The unquestionable successes that scientific-technological thinking caused it to be transformed into the ´exemplary´ paradigmatic way of seeing the world. Technological scientific thought not only contemplates the world but seeks to modify it and make it for man. The predictions of science determine what will happen. The idea of progress always underlies this way of thinking.Contrary to what is held by the most radical scientism, the scientist in his work, although he only tries to explain a limited plot of reality, is assuming a series of ontological principles, with which his work can no longer be understood apart from philosophy, which implies a different way of understanding not only science but also philosophy. Craig Dilworth puts forward three fundamental principles that represent the basis of modern science and that demonstrate the importance that metaphysics has had in the development of it: 1) The principle of the uniformity of nature; 2) The principle of the perpetuity of the substance; 3) The principle of causality. These principles provide the main categories of analysis of modern science.The principle of uniformity of nature holds that a given state is followed by a similar state, which implicitly expresses a determinism in changes of nature. The principle of substance, which has the historical antecedent in the three types of Descartes substance, states that the substance exists perpetually and that change is only an alteration of it. The substance fulfils the function of object of study of the different disciplines and there is a continuity of the same, thus: ‘the substance on an discipline is supposed by other. Chemistry supposes physics; biology supposes chemistry; social science presupposed biology’.