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Critical Neuroscience probes the extent to which discussion of
neuroscience—in ethical debates, policy texts, commercial and clinical
projects—matches the achievements and potential of neuroscience
itself. It examines the ways in which the new sciences and
technologies of the brain lead to classifying people in new ways, and
the effects this can have on social and personal life. It studies both
the methods used to gain new knowledge, and the ways in which the
knowledge is interpreted and used. The project aims at finding or
creating a shared vocabulary for neuroscientists and social scientists
in which they can talk about the potential of the tools, the
analytical methods, the interpretations of the data. We also need a
shared way in which to think about the barrage of media reports of all
this work. Critical Neuroscience aims, more over, at drawing attention
to any social or political imperatives that make certain research
programs in neuroscience more attractive and better funded than
others. We hope to introduce our observations into brain research
itself, and to integrate them into new experimental and interpretive
directions.
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