Keith says:
> This analogy is an instructive one. Philosophers of mind (and empirical
> researchers) have spent at least 40 years arguing whether psychology
> reduces to neurobiology, and if not, then why not. I am working on a
> philosophy of social science article, in which I take the philosophy of
> mind arguments for "nonreductive materialism" and develop them into a
> position I call "nonreductive individualism." The consensus among
> philosophers of mind is that the mental is not reducible to the physical.
> Surprisingly given the obviousness of the analogy, no philosophers of
> social science have yet drawn out this analogy.
I'd guess that the the consensus among the 'scientists of the brain'
(neuroanatomists?) is that the philosophers are barking mad! (See Patty
Churchland's 'Neurophilosophy' for a robust critique).
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