Speaker name
José Luis Díaz Gómez
Institutional affiliation
Facultad de Medicina, UNAM
Miércoles 13 de noviembre 2024, 12:20 - 14:20
Neurophilosophy of otherness
Abstact
The capacity to recognize other people as subjects endowed with mental capacities and intentional behavior known as otherness has a biological, behavioral and cerebral basis that must be taken into account for its philosophical analysis. This paper reviews these foundations in terms of the following properties and capacities of otherness: Intersubjectivity, the ability to "read the mind" of others, the social brain, mirror neurons, as well as the brain correlates of deception, shame, beauty and affective bonding.
Semblance
José Luis Díaz Gómez graduated as a surgeon from UNAM in 1967 and since then has been a full time researcher at the same University, initially at the Institute of Biomedical Research, then at the Center for Neurobiology at the Juriquilla campus and currently at the Department of History of Philosophy of the School of Medicine. He extended his initial training in neurosciences and psychobiology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard University between 1970 and 1972. He has been a research associate at the National Institutes of Neurology and Psychiatry, as well as a visiting professor at the Universities of Arizona and Santiago de Compostela. His area of work has been psychobiology and he has conducted research in experimental psychiatry, neurochemistry, psychopharmacology, animal behavior, consciousness and cognitive neuroscience of emotion, attention, music, ethics and imagination. He has special interests in the philosophy of neuroscience, psychobiology and the mind-body problem. He has published 16 single-authored books and 8 as editor, in addition to some 200 research, review, essay and commentary articles. His books include "La conciencia viviente" (2007) and "Las moradas de la mente" (2022) published by Fondo de Cultura Económica, as well as "Neurofilosfía del yo. Autoconcienica e identidad" (2022) by Bonilla Artigas/UNAM. In June 2013 he was elected numerary member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua to occupy chair VI.