Naslov (srp)

Empatija i savremena moralna subjektivnost: sociološki pristup interpretacijama neuronaučnih istraživanja

Autor

Andrejić, Ana R., 1975-

Doprinosi

Gavrilović, Danijela, 1967-
Mitrović, Veselin, 1972-
Stojić, Gordana, 1969-
Jovanović, Miloš, 1977-

Opis (srp)

The main objective of the doctoral dissertation is to gaininsight into how scientific research on empathy and its neuralmechanisms relates to contemporary understanding of moralsubjectivity. More specifically, the research aims to examineconceptions of moral and social subjectivity in published papersfrom new integrative disciplines, characterized by Vidal andOrtega as "neurodisciplines” – from social neuroscience,neurosociology, neuroethics, and the debate about biologicalmoral enhancement. Using conceptual critique and consideringintegration of levels of analysis, the research investigates howempathy is connected to neuroscientic findings about brainactivation, mirror-neurons, and the hormone oxytocin, as well asto social and moral concepts.The research findings demonstrate that neurodisciplinaryintegration of concepts and levels of analysis involvesinterpretation, which is contingent upon a cerebral conception ofsubjectivity and methodological individualism. Inneurodisciplinary integration, neuroscientific knowledge takesprecedence, functioning as evidence for social and ethicalconceptions. Knowledge from the social sciences is of secondaryimportance, and critiques of interpretations of neuroscientificfindings are largely absent. The dichotomy between the emotionaland the rational plays a crucial role in neurodisciplinaryknowledge production about empathy and other capacities of the“social” and “moral brain”, with other biosocial dichotomiesmapped onto it. Emotional aspects of empathy and morality areconsidered faster, evolutionary ancient, and more embodied,serving as a link between social and moral concepts, andneuroscietific findings.The research indicates the compatibility betweenneuroscientific knowledge and the neoliberal social context.Drawing on Foucault’s framework of problematization, it can beconcluded that empathy is seen as an answer to questions aboutthe neural bases of morality and sociality under individualisticassumptions about the subject. The contemporary proliferation ofscientific and popular discourses on empathy, its potential neuralbases, and proposals for its enhancement, is driven not only bynew scientific discoveries, but also by widely spread conceptionsof subjectivity. Therefore, its effect is to reinforce anindividualistic understanding of morality and sociality.

Opis (srp)

Biografija autora: str. 349.Bibliografija: str. 321-347. Datum odbrane: 03.09.2025. Sociology of morality

Jezik

srpski

Datum

2024

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