{"title":"Neuroreductionism about Sex and Love.","authors":"Julian Savulescu, Brian D Earp","doi":"10.1017/S1477175614000128","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Neuroreductionism\" is the tendency to reduce complex mental phenomena to brain states, confusing correlation for physical causation. In this paper, we illustrate the dangers of this popular neuro-fallacy, by looking at an example drawn from the media: a story about \"hypoactive sexual desire disorder\" in women. We discuss the role of folk dualism in perpetuating such a confusion, and draw some conclusions about the role of \"brain scans\" in our understanding of romantic love.</p>","PeriodicalId":41260,"journal":{"name":"Think-Philosophy for Everyone","volume":"13 38","pages":"7-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4191624/pdf/emss-59635.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Think-Philosophy for Everyone","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175614000128","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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"Neuroreductionism" is the tendency to reduce complex mental phenomena to brain states, confusing correlation for physical causation. In this paper, we illustrate the dangers of this popular neuro-fallacy, by looking at an example drawn from the media: a story about "hypoactive sexual desire disorder" in women. We discuss the role of folk dualism in perpetuating such a confusion, and draw some conclusions about the role of "brain scans" in our understanding of romantic love.
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