Relevance of the history of concepts for psychopathology and the other sciences of mind: introspection as a case in point

Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences (1):1-3 (2013)
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Abstract

Sometimes it happens that the same concept is discussed independently but, at the same time, in different disciplinary fields. The recent dominance of neuroscientific research has reintroduced into the experimental realm the importance of the experimental subject’s self-evaluation to be correlated to detectable changes into brain activity. For example, the experimental subjects are instructed to press a button or move a finger when they perceive or feel something, or they fill questionnaires supposed to measure their experience; all these “data” are then statistically correlated to measures of brain functioning.

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Massimiliano Aragona
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza

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