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The logic of interests in neuroscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Leslie Brothers
Leslie Brothers
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry, UCLA-Sepulveda VA Medical Center, Sepulveda, CA 91343 [email protected] www.medsch.ucla.edu/som/npi/svapsych
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Abstract

Logical problems inherent in claims that biological neuroscience can ultimately explain mind are not anomalous: They result from underlying social interests. Neuroscientists are currently making a successful bid to fill a vacuum of authority created by the demise of Freudian theory in popular culture. The conflations described in the Gold & Stoljar target article are the result of alliances between certain apologist-philosophers, neuroscientists, and institutions, for the purpose of commanding authority and resources. Social analysis has a role to play in addressing logical issues in the philosophy of neuroscience.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 831 - 832
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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