Dissociations in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience

Philosophy of Science 79 (4):490-518 (2012)
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In this article, I compare the epistemic standing of the function-to-structure inferences found in cognitive neuroscience and of the inferences based on dissociations in neuropsychology. I argue that the former have a poorer epistemic standing than the latter.

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