Carving Mind at Brain’s Joints. The Debate on Cognitive Ontology
Since neuroimaging methods allow researchers to study the human brain at work, the vexed mind-brain problem ceased to be just a metaphysical issue, and became a practical concern for Cognitive Neuroscientists: how could they carve mind and brain into distinct entities, and what is the relation betw...
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oai:doaj.org-article:d75baf47a2354f41b069f46abc3a2c672021-12-02T12:19:25ZCarving Mind at Brain’s Joints. The Debate on Cognitive Ontology10.13128/Phe_Mi-211152280-78532239-4028https://doaj.org/article/d75baf47a2354f41b069f46abc3a2c672017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7275https://doaj.org/toc/2280-7853https://doaj.org/toc/2239-4028 Since neuroimaging methods allow researchers to study the human brain at work, the vexed mind-brain problem ceased to be just a metaphysical issue, and became a practical concern for Cognitive Neuroscientists: how could they carve mind and brain into distinct entities, and what is the relation between these two sets? In this paper, I discuss the classical model of one-to-one mappings between mental and neural entities, inherited from phrenology, and make its assumptions explicit. I then examine the shortcomings of this “new phrenology”, and explore two solutions to them: the first accepts many-to-many mappings, whereas the second proposes a radically rethinking of the relata of this correspondence. Marco ViolaRosenberg & Sellierarticlephilosophy of neurosciencephilosophy of psychologycognitive ontologyone-to-one mappingAestheticsBH1-301EthicsBJ1-1725ENFRITPhenomenology and Mind, Iss 12 (2017) |
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Since neuroimaging methods allow researchers to study the human brain at work, the vexed mind-brain problem ceased to be just a metaphysical issue, and became a practical concern for Cognitive Neuroscientists: how could they carve mind and brain into distinct entities, and what is the relation between these two sets? In this paper, I discuss the classical model of one-to-one mappings between mental and neural entities, inherited from phrenology, and make its assumptions explicit. I then examine the shortcomings of this “new phrenology”, and explore two solutions to them: the first accepts many-to-many mappings, whereas the second proposes a radically rethinking of the relata of this correspondence.
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