Comments on: Neuroscience: Is There Anything It Can't Do? (guest post by Ryan Calo, CIS) http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/lawandbiosciences/2009/07/15/neuroscience-is-there-anything-it-cant-do/ Wed, 15 May 2013 21:56:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ryan Sager - Neuroworld - Neuro News Nanos - True/Slant http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/lawandbiosciences/2009/07/15/neuroscience-is-there-anything-it-cant-do/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Ryan Sager - Neuroworld - Neuro News Nanos - True/Slant Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:13:16 +0000 http://lawandbiosciences.wordpress.com/?p=551#comment-87 [...] Are cats neuroscientists? — maybe in the same way that artists are — a little [...] [...] Are cats neuroscientists? — maybe in the same way that artists are — a little [...]

]]> By: mrcalo http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/lawandbiosciences/2009/07/15/neuroscience-is-there-anything-it-cant-do/comment-page-1/#comment-86 mrcalo Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:57:06 +0000 http://lawandbiosciences.wordpress.com/?p=551#comment-86 Thanks. I don't mean to imply that neuroscience yields no insights when applied to another discipline---it does, and sometimes very important ones. I mean only that neuroscience does not provide anything resembling a thick description of that discipline or its concerns. Thanks. I don’t mean to imply that neuroscience yields no insights when applied to another discipline—it does, and sometimes very important ones. I mean only that neuroscience does not provide anything resembling a thick description of that discipline or its concerns.

]]> By: emilyrmurphy http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/lawandbiosciences/2009/07/15/neuroscience-is-there-anything-it-cant-do/comment-page-1/#comment-85 emilyrmurphy Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:28:04 +0000 http://lawandbiosciences.wordpress.com/?p=551#comment-85 Really excellent point about confusing mechanism with meaning. To all interested in a deep understanding of what counts as explanations in neuroscience, I recommend Carl Craver's "Explaining the Brain." True explanatory power is something that is often glossed-over in the various "neuro-" marriages. It is important to keep asking where that explanatory power lies and what it adds to what specific kind of understanding one is after. Really excellent point about confusing mechanism with meaning. To all interested in a deep understanding of what counts as explanations in neuroscience, I recommend Carl Craver’s “Explaining the Brain.”

True explanatory power is something that is often glossed-over in the various “neuro-” marriages. It is important to keep asking where that explanatory power lies and what it adds to what specific kind of understanding one is after.

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