Philosophical Hazards in the Neuroscientific Study of Religion

Abstract

To deny the truth of our own experience in the scientific study of ourselves is not only unsatisfactory; it is to render the scientific study of ourselves without a subject matter. F. Varela, The Embodied [G]iven that common sense recommends a world view with physical and psychological elements, the neuroscientific eliminativist about everyday psychology … changes the subject when he speaks of states of the brain: he fails to bring a concept of person to bear when he says that commonsense psychology merits elimination.