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Forms of explanation and why they may matter
Explanations from neuroscience are threatening to replace those from psychology in the eyes and hands of journalists, university administrators, granting agencies, and research students. If replacement happens, much of psychology will exist only as part of the historical record. It, thus, may be use...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6311174/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30594963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-018-0143-2 |
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description | Explanations from neuroscience are threatening to replace those from psychology in the eyes and hands of journalists, university administrators, granting agencies, and research students. If replacement happens, much of psychology will exist only as part of the historical record. It, thus, may be useful to understand what forms of explanation are used by the two fields. Such an understanding may help us explain how each field can contribute to the other and why they are different. I review several templates of psychological and neuroscientific explanation, and criticize some others. I argue that psychology (and neuroscience) should continue to exist. Neuroscience is not better than psychology, and it cannot replace psychology. |
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spelling | pubmed-63111742019-01-11 Forms of explanation and why they may matter Baron, Jonathan Cogn Res Princ Implic Original Article Explanations from neuroscience are threatening to replace those from psychology in the eyes and hands of journalists, university administrators, granting agencies, and research students. If replacement happens, much of psychology will exist only as part of the historical record. It, thus, may be useful to understand what forms of explanation are used by the two fields. Such an understanding may help us explain how each field can contribute to the other and why they are different. I review several templates of psychological and neuroscientific explanation, and criticize some others. I argue that psychology (and neuroscience) should continue to exist. Neuroscience is not better than psychology, and it cannot replace psychology. Springer International Publishing 2018-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6311174/ /pubmed/30594963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-018-0143-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Baron, Jonathan Forms of explanation and why they may matter |
title | Forms of explanation and why they may matter |
title_full | Forms of explanation and why they may matter |
title_fullStr | Forms of explanation and why they may matter |
title_full_unstemmed | Forms of explanation and why they may matter |
title_short | Forms of explanation and why they may matter |
title_sort | forms of explanation and why they may matter |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6311174/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30594963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-018-0143-2 |
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