David W Schaal

Naming our concerns about neuroscience: a review of Bennett and Hacker's philosophical foundations of neuroscience.

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior November 1, 2005 David W Schaal

Bennett and Hacker use conceptual analysis to appraise the theoretical language of modern cognitive neuroscientists, and conclude that neuroscientific theory is largely dualistic despite the fact that neuroscientists equate mind with the operations of the brain. The central error of cognitive neuroscientists is to commit the mereological fallacy, the tendency to ascribe to the brain...