neuroskepticism

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neuroskepticism (countable and uncountable, plural neuroskepticisms)

Skepticism of neuroscientific claims.
- [2012, Melissa M. Littlefield, Jenell Johnson, editors, The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 202:
  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.]
- 2021, Christopher Comer, Ashley Taggart, Brain, Mind, and the Narrative Imagination‎^[1], Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
  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.