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neuroskepticism

neuroskepticism noun: skepticism of neuroscientific claims.

Noun

neuroskepticism (countable and uncountable, plural neuroskepticisms)

  1. Skepticism of neuroscientific claims.
    • As the neurologist and ethicist Eran Klein (2009) has pointed out, others have deployed the neuro-logism “neuroskepticism” in their quest to understand the turn to neurophilia, if not neuro-obsession.[2012, Melissa M. Littlefield, Jenell Johnson, editors, The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 202
    • Such fulmination is an extreme version of neuroskepticism: simply defined as a distrust of neuroscientific claims about any but the most technical of questions, along with a visceral rejection of any scientific enthusiasm from humanists.2021, Christopher Comer, Ashley Taggart, Brain, Mind, and the Narrative Imagination, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

Forms of neuroskepticism

pluralneuroskepticisms

Origin of neuroskepticism

From neuro- + skepticism.

Questions about neuroskepticism

What does neuroskepticism mean?
Neuroskepticism means skepticism of neuroscientific claims.
What part of speech is neuroskepticism?
Neuroskepticism is a noun.
What is the plural of neuroskepticism?
The plural of neuroskepticism is neuroskepticisms.

Words near neuroskepticism in the dictionary

  1. neurosimilar
  2. neurosis
  3. neuroskeletal
  4. neuroskeleton
  5. neuroskeletons
  6. neuroskepticism
  7. neurosociology
  8. neurosoftware
  9. neurosomatic
  10. neurosome
  11. neurosomes

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