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The nontrivial doctrine of cognitive neuroscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0126, and Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0374 valerie@vt.edu

Abstract

Gold & Stoljar's “trivial” neuron doctrine is neither a truism in cognitive science nor trivial; it has serious consequences for the future direction of the mind/brain sciences. Not everyone would agree that these consequences are desirable. The authors' “radical” doctrine is not so radical; their division between cognitive neuroscience and neurobiology is largely artificial. Indeed, there is no sharp distinction between cognitive neuroscience and other areas of the brain sciences.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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