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Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Giovanni Berlucchi, Neurofobia: chi ha paura del cervello?
Viola, Marco
2015
Abstract
The neuroscience progress in psychology’s territories has raisedmanyskeptical arguments. Among the most popular skeptical books there is Neuromania (by Legrenzi and Umiltà, 2009), which raises several questions on fertility and soundness of the cognitive neuroscience research programs. In their pamphlet,the authors complain about an excessive reliance on the capability of brain science to unfold the workings of mind, and define it a neuro-mania syndrome. To date, Neurofobia (by Aglioti and Berlucchi, 2013) is the most extensive and explicit reply to such allegations (at least in Italy). The authors aim to defend cognitive neuroscience by debunking the skeptics’ arguments, as well asreversing the charges accusing them tobe victim of a Luddite attitude toward neuroscience – an attitudethat would be symptomatic of an actual(neuro)phobia. Aftera brief discussion of both the content of Neurofobia and its context, in this review I will appraise its effectiveness as an answer to the skeptical charges.
Journal
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Marco Viola, "Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Giovanni Berlucchi, Neurofobia: chi ha paura del cervello?, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2013, pp. 206.", in "APhEx 11", 2015, pp. 24.
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it
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