Abstract
Contrastive neuroimaging is often taken to provide evidence about the localization of cognitive functions. After canvassing some problems with this approach, I offer an alternative: neuroimaging gives evidence about regions of the brain that bear difference-making relationships to psychological processes of interest. I distinguish between the specificity and what I call the systematicity of a difference-making relationship, and I show how at least some neuroimaging experiments can give evidence for systematic difference-making.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-20 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Philosophical Psychology |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- causation
- difference-making
- fMRI
- neuroimaging
- neuroscience