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The implications of neural reuse for the future of both cognitive neuroscience and folk psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2016

Michael Silberstein
Michael Silberstein*
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Elizabethtown College and UMD College Park Department of Philosophy, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022. silbermd@etown.eduhttp://facultysites.etown.edu/silbermd/
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Abstract

If neural reuse is true, then: (1) fully escaping phrenology will eventually require an even less brain-centric and mechanistic cognitive neuroscience that focuses on relations and interactions between brain, body, and environment at many different scales and levels across both space and time, and (2) although scientific psychology must be heavily revised, the autonomy and irreducibility of folk psychology are assured.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e132
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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