neuroskepticism

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noun

Skepticism of neuroscientific claims.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

nounneuroskepticism (countable and uncountable, plural neuroskepticisms)

plural neuroskepticisms

  1. countableuncountableSkepticism of neuroscientific claims.

    As the neurologist and ethicist Eran Klein (2009) has pointed out, others have deployed the neuro-logism “neuroskepticism” in their quest to understand the turn to neurophilia, if not neuro-obsession.

    [2012, Melissa M. Littlefield, Jenell Johnson, editors, The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 202
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    Such fulmination is an extreme version of neuroskepticism: simply defined as a distrust of neuroscientific claims about any but the most technical of questions, along with a visceral rejection of any scientific enthusiasm from humanists.

    2021, Christopher Comer, Ashley Taggart, Brain, Mind, and the Narrative Imagination, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

Origin

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