| Journal: | Ludus vitalis |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000406366 |
| ISSN: | 1133-5165 |
| Authors: | Montiel-Castro, Augusto1 Martínez Contreras, Jorge1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Lerma de Villada, Estado de México. México |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Volumen: | 22 |
| Number: | 41 |
| Pages: | 289-310 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | The concept "liberty" has been revised in great depth by multiple authors from several disciplines. Since the XIX century, the modern evolutionary theory opens its study as an evolutionary capacity and a cognitive process. Its components can be identified in other species by understanding its behavioral cognitive correlates, as it is often attempted for other complex phenomena ("emphaty", "Love", "intelligence", and so on) that are similary based on the interaction of a variety of processes at different levels of organization. Based on empirical evidence, this work analyses the degree by which three necessary components (while probably insufficient) of the faculty referred to as components (while probably insufficient) of the de faculty referred to as "liberty" can be found in non-human organisms: (i) the degree of "behavioral flexibility"; (ii) the capacity for "voluntary behavioral restriction", and (iii) the capacity for "recognition of responsability |
| Disciplines: | Filosofía, Psicología |
| Keyword: | Filosofía de la ciencia, Lógica, Metafísica, Filosofía de la mente, Filosofía de la psicología, Causalidad, Agencia, Cognición, Libertad, Conducta, Voluntad |
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