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Radical explanations, but trivial descriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Claus Lamm
Claus Lamm
Affiliation:
Brain Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna, A-1010 Vienna, Austriaclaus.lamm@univie.ac.at
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Abstract

A thorough distinction between explanatory and descriptive concepts reveals a radical explanatory and a trivial descriptive doctrine in current neuroscientific research. The explanatory approach examines the neuronal substrates of the mind, whereas the descriptive one deals only with its correlates.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 842 - 843
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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