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Integrating Social Science with Neuroscience: Potentials and Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2007

John Cromby
John Cromby
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Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK E-mail: J.Cromby@lboro.ac.uk
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Abstract

New opportunities for systematic collaboration between neuroscience and social science have opened up in recent years, and some of the potentials and the problems that accompany them are explored with reference to Damasio’s work. Systematic collaboration and integration might yield benefits for metatheoretical, theoretical and substantive inquiry, but will be impeded by language, conceptual and methodological problems. Strategies to facilitate collaboration are discussed, and it is concluded that methodological problems will be most difficult to resolve.

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affectiveembodimentemotionhabitusinterdisciplinarysomatic marker

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BioSocieties , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 149 - 169
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Copyright © London School of Economics and Political Science 2007

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