[lbo-talk] NPR: A Neuroscientist Uncovers A Dark Secret

[Matthias Wasser]

On Tuesday, June 29, 2010, Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com> wrote:
> It fascinates me how many neuroscientists seem to be unaware of or
> unconcerned with the fact that they're drawing conclusions about the
> neurophysiological causes of behavior from correlational studies.
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> Somebody: Right, because drawing correlations with social phenomena or class position is evidently more scientifically rigorous than positing that human behavior might have neurological premises.
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Is there anyone who doesn't posit neurological  premises of human
behavior? Anything to do with correlates between brain states and
behavior is strictly orthogonal to nature/nurture  questions, although
of course plasticity matters.