A Pluralist Hope: Or, Against Optimizing Neurochemistry on Some Moonlit Dream-Visited Planet

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Jennifer Hansen
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ABSTRACT In considering the hopeful rhetoric that pervades the “nothing but” psychopharmacological approaches to depression—a contemporary version of what William James calls medical materialism—this article argues that only a thorough-going pluralist account of hope is a hope worth wanting. Medical materialist hope is better conceptualized as a variation of optimism, which assumes a single universe that is already the best of all possible universes, and thereby only promotes optimization of the status quo, rather than encourage a wider undertaking of a variety of experiments in living. A pluralist hope, as opposed to optimism, cannot logically infer what the future will bring from a reigning scientific model of the brain. Rather, a pluralist hope is a passionate belief that a not-yet unimagined, and therefore indeterminate, future will meliorate current human ills should humans strenuously work toward achieving it.
一个多元化的希望:或者,反对在一些月光下梦想访问的星球上优化神经化学
考虑到充满希望的修辞充斥着“除了”精神药理学治疗抑郁症的方法——威廉·詹姆斯称之为医学唯物主义的当代版本——这篇文章认为,只有对希望进行彻底的多元描述才是值得渴望的希望。医学唯物主义的希望最好被概念化为乐观主义的一种变体,它假设一个宇宙已经是所有可能宇宙中最好的,因此只会促进现状的优化,而不是鼓励更广泛地进行各种各样的生活实验。与乐观主义相反,多元主义的希望不能从一个占主导地位的大脑科学模型中逻辑地推断出未来会带来什么。相反,多元主义的希望是一种充满激情的信念,即如果人类努力实现一个尚未想象、因此也不确定的未来,它将改善当前人类的弊病。
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