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- Title
¿DECISIÓN UTILITARISTA O DECISIÓN ALEATORIA? CRÍTICA A UNA TESIS ATRINCHERADA EN LA NEUROCIENCIA COGNITIVA.
- Authors
ROSAS, ALEJANDRO; CAVIEDES, ESTEBAN; ARCINIEGAS, ALEJANDRA; ARCINIEGAS, ANDREA
- Abstract
In their answers to questions regarding "personal moral dilemmas", patients with lesions to the Frontal Cortex -FC- or Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex -vmPFC- display a disposition to directly injure another person in order to save lives, thus revealing a possible lack of empathy. However, their answers are normal when they evaluate behaviors lacking in empathy but without a utilitarian justification. We here defend that those patients suffer from a cognitive deficiency associated with Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis and with value judgments. The article critiques the "utilitarian patient" hypothesis that has become deeply rooted in cognitive neuroscience
- Subjects
COGNITIVE neuroscience; EMPATHY; DISPOSITION (Philosophy); UTILITARIANISM; MORAL judgment
- Publication
Ideas y Valores, 2013, Vol 62, Issue 153, p179
- ISSN
0120-0062
- Publication type
Article