'Lo mismo despiertos, que soñando': Hobbes sobre la virtualidad de lo real ('The Same Waking, that Dreaming': Hobbes on the Virtuality of the Real)

Ibercampus (Aug. 12, 2015)

7 Pages Posted: 15 Aug 2015

Date Written: August 12, 2015

Abstract

Spanish Abstract: Relacionamos la teoría del conocimiento de Thomas Hobbes, y su psicología, con perspectivas modernas que enfatizan la construcción mental del mundo real, procedentes tanto del campo del interaccionismo simbólico (G. H. Mead) como del cognitivismo evolucionista y ecológico (D. D. Hoffman). Señalamos una línea que conecta el construccionismo contemporáneo con el empirismo clásico, a partir de la psicología materialista de Hobbes, que propone derivar los fenómenos mentales de lo sensorial y material, y ofrece así un modelo de integración consiliente de las ciencias humanas y de las ciencias naturales.

English Abstract: The epistemology of Thomas Hobbes, and his psychology, are here related to modern perspectives which emphasize the mental construction of reality, perspectives coming both from the field of symbolic interactionism (G. H. Mead) and from evolutionary and ecological cognitivism (D. D. Hoffman). A connecting thread is traced from classical empiricism to contemporary constructivism, starting with Hobbes's materialist psychology, which in its aim to derive mental phenomena from sensory and material bases, offers a model for a consilient integration of the humanities and the natural sciences.

Keywords: Consilience, Cognition, Epistemology, Objects, G. H. Mead, Thomas Hobbes, Ecology, D. D. Hoffman

Suggested Citation

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, 'Lo mismo despiertos, que soñando': Hobbes sobre la virtualidad de lo real ('The Same Waking, that Dreaming': Hobbes on the Virtuality of the Real) (August 12, 2015). Ibercampus (Aug. 12, 2015), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2644166

Jose Angel Garcia Landa (Contact Author)

Universidad de Zaragoza ( email )

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Zaragoza, 50005
Spain

HOME PAGE: http://www.garcialanda.net

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