Person and Knowledge

The problem of knowledge, as Aristotle commented in metaphysics, is inscribed in human nature. We all desire to know and understand our reality, the world and God who transcends it. From ancient times it has been a study that, linked to the mystery and complexity of human existence, has required multiple approaches. Furthermore, modern philosophy has given - we could say excessively - a central place to the problem of what can be known and how it is known. From this centrality, the development of German idealism and even existentialism, phenomenology, scientific positivism and analytical philosophy can be understood as a response to what has been presented with a totalizing character and that has opened new forms of address the problem of man’s relationship with reality.

We live in a time where culture increasingly denies the truth and the very desire to seek it. Furthermore, we are confused by the diversity of approaches and what is true in the different areas of our existence and being in the world. Person and Knowledge acknowledges the importance of asking the questions that exist behind knowledge in its various modalities and aspects.

This book is an in-depth discussion between researchers which both enriches the respective visions and moves towards a more comprehensive understanding of human knowledge and its relationship with the human person.

Francisco Ceric is a Research Professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago de Chile. He is currently Head of the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, of the Faculty of Psychology of the Universidad del Desarrollo and President of the Institutional Research Ethics Committee (CEEII). He is the author of numerous publications in the line of cognition and emotions from a neuroscientific perspective.

Juan David Quiceno has a Doctor in Philosophy from the University of Navarra. He has a master’s degree in philosophy from the San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia. Philosopher and Theologian from the Gregorian University of Rome. He is a professor of philosophical anthropology at the Universidad Católica San Pablo (Arequipa, Peru), where serves too as undergraduate coordinator of the Humanities Department. He is editor of the magazine Persona y Cultura. Author of the book: Narrative identity according to Paul Ricoeur. Towards a hermeneutics of the human person.

María del Carmen Tejada has a degree in psychology from the San Pablo Catholic University. She has a master’s degree in science with a major in clinical-educational, child and adolescent psychology from the National University of San Agustín (Arequipa, Peru) and a Master’s degree in Developmental Sciences and Psychopathology from the Universidad del Desarrollo of Santiago de Chile. Her research area focuses on affective neuroscience, prosocial decision making, and antisocial behaviors. She is currently a PhD candidate. She in Developmental Sciences and Psychopathology at the Development University of Santiago de Chile.

Pablo Fossa is Director of the Cognition & Culture Laboratory (C&C Lab) of Instituto de Bienestar Socioemocional (IBEM) at the Faculty of Psychology, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. He received a PhD degree in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. His doctoral thesis dealt with the expressive dimension of inner language in human experience. He did a postdoctoral fellowship financed by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) of Chile, with a research project on thought trajectories from a microgenetic orientation. His lines of research are related to Cognition, Cultural Psychology and Phenomenology. He is the editor of the book Latin American Advances in Subjectivity and Development: Through Vygotsky Route (Springer, 2021), New Perspectives on Inner Speech (Springer, 2022), Inner Speech, Culture & Education (Springer, 2022), Affectivity & Learning (Springer, 2023) and Collected Papers on Inner Speech (IAP, 2024). Currently, he is PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Navarra, Spain.