“The neuroscience delusion” – Raymond Tallis at Times Literary Supplement
Written on April 12, 2008
“Neuroaesthetics is wrong…” says Raymond Tallis in this Times Literary Supplement article (Apr 9, 2008).
Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts is cited by Tallis as an example of “the kinds of things critics get up to these days.” (‘Search Inside’ the book available at Amazon so you can get a “free taste.”) Criticizing the reductionist approach of ‘neuroaesthetics’ Tallis states:
The neuromythologist, trying to find citizens and their worlds in neurones, stuffs all that has been created by the collective of brains back into a stand-alone brain; indeed into a small part of such a brain.
Tallis’s new book The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Portrait of Your Head (available in the UK but not until next September in the US) is discussed in this recent article in The Times.
Books by Raymond Tallis at Amazon.com
added a little later: another article about Tallis in The Independent (April 11, 2008)
Filed in: cognitive science,culture.
