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“Mind is brain” is trivial and nonscientific in both neurobiology and cognitive science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

J. Scott Jordan
J. Scott Jordan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL 60655 [email protected]
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Abstract

Gold & Stoljar reveal that adherence to the radical neuron doctrine cannot be maintained via appeals to scientific principles. Using arguments from (1) naturalism and materialism, (2) unification, and (3) exemplars, it is shown that the “mind-is-brain” materialism explicit in the trivial version of the neuron doctrine ultimately suffers the same theoretical fate. Cognitive science, if it is to adopt an ontology at all, would be better served by a metaphysically neutral ontology such as double-aspect theory or neutral monism.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 842
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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