The argument could certainly be used to that effect to render any neuroscientific look at concepts like love and justice meaningless. 1/manyhttps://twitter.com/Auto_Math/status/854265768925691904 …
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You could get lost forever in quibbles about semantic differences & cultural variability.or you cld just take it as a need to define terms..
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clearly and point out that differences exist before getting on to the science. Or you might just never get there.
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eg I'd use the word 'love' to describe my feelings for my friends. My husband wouldn't but I'd be v surprised if he cared less deeply.
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Gender difference there. Cultural differences also exist. Brits prob talk abt their feelings of love less than most but feel it as much.
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It will be important to point this out sometimes but not all the time to the point where neuroscience stalls on philosophy.
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We won't solve 'what is virtue' but we don't need to to look at morality using neuroscience. Just explain what you're looking at.
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eg can look at how our sense of fairness works without having first established a consensus on the concept of justice.
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There are some who would have scientists never do science but just reflect on the way culture influences & is influenced by science.
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We get it. You're more interested in culture than science. I am too. By all means write abt that. Rigorously. With clear examples.
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But it's arrogant & presumptuous to keep insisting that scientists focus on what interests you & that what interests you is always relevant.
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