The epistemological ostrich of the antiPoperian brain and the political-economic drama of the Anthropocene
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https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2021i24p139-156Keywords:
Anthropocene, Anthropocentrism, Human rationality, Bounded rationalityAbstract
This short essay argues for a conception of Anthropocene as a historical condition that marks the decline of the anthropocentrism. Anthropocene is the historical condition in which we became aware of the distance between the idealized rationality that is essential to modern anthropocentrism and the more realistic version of our rationality that is emerging from contemporary empirical studies. In the last few decades, empirical studies in the field of cognitive science and experimental psychology have developed models of rationality that contrast with the more idealized versions of rationality that we have been cultivating since the enlightenment. This contrast is not new. It has been anticipated by Freud and the psychoanalytic tradition in Western culture. What is new is the accumulation of evidence that sustains a more descriptive (less normative) conceptualization of human reason. This more descriptive approach (based on experimental research) of how human reason is called bounded rationality and is the fundamental engine of the decline of the anthropocentrism in accordance with our conception of Anthropocene in this essay.
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