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Dissociations in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Edouard Machery
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Abstract

In this article, I compare the epistemic standing of the function-to-structure inferences found in cognitive neuroscience and of the inferences based on dissociations in neuropsychology. I argue that the former have a poorer epistemic standing than the latter.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , October 2012 , pp. 490 - 518
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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I am grateful to Matt Bateman, Mazviita Chirimuuta, and three anonymous reviewers for comments on previous versions of this article.

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