neuroskepticism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From neuro- + skepticism.
Noun
[edit]neuroskepticism (countable and uncountable, plural neuroskepticisms)
- Skepticism of neuroscientific claims.
- [2012, Melissa M. Littlefield, Jenell Johnson, editors, The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 202:
- As the neurologist and ethicist Eran Klein (2009) has pointed out, others have deployed the neuro-logism “neuroskepticism” in their quest to understand the turn to neurophilia, if not neuro-obsession.]
- 2021, Christopher Comer, Ashley Taggart, Brain, Mind, and the Narrative Imagination[1], Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- Such fulmination is an extreme version of neuroskepticism: simply defined as a distrust of neuroscientific claims about any but the most technical of questions, along with a visceral rejection of any scientific enthusiasm from humanists.