Neuroimaging and Inferential Distance
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Neuroimaging and Inferential Distance
Brain images are used both as scientific evidence and to illustrate the results of neuroimaging experiments. These images are apt to be viewed as photographs of brain activity, and in so viewing them people are prone to assume that they share the evidential characteristics of photographs. Photographs are epistemically compelling, and have a number of characteristics that underlie what I call th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuroethics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1874-5490,1874-5504
DOI: 10.1007/s12152-007-9003-3