Why Neurohumanities

Epistemology is the study of knowledge, or the knowledge about knowledge.

Someone can say that the knowledge is built by neurotransmitters.

Another one can say that knowledge is built by thinking and thoughts.

And another can say that knowledge is socially constructed.

Everyone is correct. Knowledge is consequence of several human complex activities and so the biological explanation is not the only correct, although very important.

The German psychiatrist, neurologist and philosopher Henrik Walter wrote that “Neuroscience is so important for the contemporaneous Philosophy as was Physics and Evolution for the modern Philosophy”. So, we can extend this idea for all the Humanities. Beyond Philosophy, Other areas of the Human Sciences are also important to keep the understanding of Knowledge in a broader and deeper way.

By these reasons, the field of Neurohumanities appeared as a consequence of interdisciplinary activities correlated to the understanding of Knowledge and other aspects of the human being related to Neuroscience.