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Between mind and body? Psychoneuroimmunology, psychology, and cognitive science
- Abstract:
- Over the past half century, our best scientific understanding of the immune system has been transformed. The immune system has turned out to be extremely sophisticated, densely connected to the central nervous system and cognitive capacities, deeply involved in the production of behaviour, and responsive to different kinds of psychosocial event. Such results have rendered the immune system part of the subject-matter of psychology and cognitive science. I argue that such results, alongside the history of psychoneuroimmunology, give us good reason to be sceptical about the characterization of cognitive science and psychology as studying the mind and the mental.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1162/posc_a_00626
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- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Journal:
- Perspectives on Science More from this journal
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 518–548
- Publication date:
- 2023-12-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-11-29
- DOI:
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1530-9274
- ISSN:
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1063-6145
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1598195
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pubs:1598195
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2024-01-09
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- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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