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Autonomous psychology and the moderate neuron doctrine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Tony Stone  and
Martin Davies
Tony Stone
Affiliation:
Division of Psychology, South Bank University, London SE1 0AA, United Kingdomstonea@sbu.ac.uk
Martin Davies
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdommartin.davies@philosophy.ox.ac.uk sbu.ac.uk/psycho
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Abstract

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Two notions of autonomy are distinguished. The respective denials that psychology is autonomous from neurobiology are neuron doctrines, moderate and radical. According to the moderate neuron doctrine, interdisciplinary interaction need not aim at reduction. It is proposed that it is more plausible that there is slippage from the moderate to the radical neuron doctrine than that there is confusion between the radical neuron doctrine and the trivial version.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 849 - 850
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press