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B. Klein, S. (2013). Images and constructs: can the neural correlates of self be revealed through radiological analysis?. International Journal of Psychological Research, 6, 117–132. https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.727
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Abstract
In this paper I argue that radiological attempts to elucidate the properties of self -- an endeavor currently popular in the social neurosciences -- are fraught with conceptual difficulties. I first discuss several philosophical criteria that increase the chances we are posing the “right” questions to nature. I then discuss whether these criteria are met when empirical efforts are directed at one of the central constructs in the social sciences – the human self. In particular, I consider whether recent attempts to map the neural correlates of self and its assumed properties using brain scanning technology satisfy the conceptual conditions minimally required to ask well-formed, theoretically satisfying questions of nature. I conclude that much theoretical work remains to be done.
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Bickle, J. (2003). Philosophy and neuroscience: A ruthlessly reductive account. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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