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      O eterno retorno do materialismo: padrões recorrentes de explicações materialistas dos fenômenos mentais Translated title: Materialism's eternal return: recurrent patterns of materialistic explanations of mental phenomena

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          Com o desenvolvimento, na segunda metade do século XX, das novas tecnologias de neuroimagem para estudar o funcionamento do cérebro humano, uma nova onda de entusiasmo com as explicações materialistas dos fenômenos mentais invadiu os departamentos de filosofia e psicologia em todo o mundo. O auge de tudo isso foi a assim chamada "década do cérebro" nos anos 1990. Entretanto, um exame mais detalhado dos argumentos apresentados por esses novos materialistas revela padrões recorrentes de analogias e metáforas, além de uma velha estratégia retórica de apelar para um futuro distante, no qual todos os problemas serão resolvidos. Este trabalho pretende mostrar que essas novas formas de materialismo repetem estratégias discursivas de versões mais arcaicas do pensamento materialista, sobretudo do materialismo francês do século XVIII e do materialismo alemão do século XIX. Finalmente, uma interpretação para o eterno retorno do materialismo será oferecida.

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          Since the new developments of neurotechnologies for studying the brain functioning in the second half of twentieth century, a new wave of enthusiasm for materialistic explanations of mental phenomena has invaded philosophy and psychology departments worldwide. The culmination of all this was the so-called "decade of brain" in the 1990s. However, a closer examination of the arguments presented by some of these new materialists reveals recurrent patterns of analogies and metaphors, besides an old rhetorical strategy of appealing to a distant future, in which all the problems will be solved. This paper intends to show that these new forms of materialism repeat discursive strategies of older versions of materialism, especially the French materialism of the 18th century and the German materialism of the 19th century. Finally, an interpretation for materialism's eternal return will be offered.

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                Archives of Clinical Psychiatry (São Paulo)
                Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (São Paulo)
                Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                0101-6083
                1806-938X
                2013
                : 40
                : 3
                : 114-119
                Affiliations
                [01] Juiz de Fora MG orgnameUniversidade Federal de Juiz de Fora orgdiv1Departamento de Psicologia Brasil
                Article
                S0101-60832013000300007 S0101-6083(13)04000300007
                34cb71ec-b97b-43ff-8673-40dde998bafa

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 12 April 2013
                : 15 April 2013
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                Série Mente - Cérebro

                Materialism,mind-brain problem,mental phenomena,neuroscience,philosophy of mind,Materialismo,neurociência,fenômenos mentais,problema mente-cérebro,filosofia da mente

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