{"id":10959,"date":"2011-02-04T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/04\/neurobabble-is-bad-but-is-psychobabble-any-better\/"},"modified":"2011-02-04T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T05:41:07","slug":"neurobabble-is-bad-but-is-psychobabble-any-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/04\/neurobabble-is-bad-but-is-psychobabble-any-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientistic Neurobabble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">UCLA philosopher Tyler Burge scores some good clean hits against neuroscientistic&#0160;&#0160;<em>Unsinn<\/em> in a <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/19\/a-real-science-of-mind\/\" target=\"_self\">December NYT piece<\/a>. (HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/against-neurobabble.html\" target=\"_self\">Feser<\/a>).&#0160; For example, did you know that there is an area of the brain that wants to make love?&#0160; (Is it equipped for any such thing, with&#0160; a tiny penis or vagina?&#0160; And what would it make love to?&#0160; An area of the brain of another organism?&#0160; Or a different area of the same brain?&#0160; The possibilities of mockery are endless, but I will restrain myself.) But I can&#39;t resist reproducing this tidbit:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">For example, a recent article reports a researcher\u2019s \u201clooking at love, quite literally, with the aid of an MRI machine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Quite literally!&#0160; You, sir, have your head in the proctologist&#39;s domain, <em>quite literally<\/em>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA philosopher Tyler Burge scores some good clean hits against neuroscientistic&#0160;&#0160;Unsinn in a December NYT piece. (HT: Feser).&#0160; For example, did you know that there is an area of the brain that wants to make love?&#0160; (Is it equipped for any such thing, with&#0160; a tiny penis or vagina?&#0160; And what would it make love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/04\/neurobabble-is-bad-but-is-psychobabble-any-better\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neuroscientistic Neurobabble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}