Neuroteología y naturalismo filosófico: ¿reduccionismo materialista del fenómeno religioso?

Abstract

In this work an exploratory analysis is carried out on what has been conceived as a new field of scientific knowledge for some decades, we refer to neurotheology. It is also intended to under-stand to what extent contemporary naturalistic philosophy can be linked to neurotheology — especially when naturalism implies, in most cases, a reductionism that leads to materialism — , taking into account that in the different neuroscientific areas it has instead a physicalism, that is, a reduction of cognitive properties or processes to mere brain processes and neural interac-tions, which, thanks to technology, can now be visualized by different instruments and tech-niques.