IN 2007 The New York Times ran an article about using brain imaging to predict the eventual choices of undecided voters in a presidential primary. This is the sort of thing that drives the authors of this strange little book up the wall. As they see it, modern neuroscience is not only overreaching itself, but is also positively dangerous.
From the familiar problem of brain imaging creating overly simplistic pictures of brain function to bandwagon-jumping “neuro” disciplines like neuroeconomics, Paolo Legrenzi and Carlo Umiltà – distinguished Italian psychologists – argue that we have been collectively seduced by brain science’s hubris.
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