Wimsatt: Perhaps, just perhaps, the best explanation of a phenomenon at a given level is to be found at the same level.
Kendler: Noone would seek to explain hypertension at the level of quarks.
A few of my favourite papers on this topic of absurd biological reductionism: 🧵
Eiko Fried
This...the fetishizing of unreplicable neuroscience in order to legitimize our work is self-defeating. We don't need to know that depression is in the brain (as opposed to what???) to know it is problematic. How much money have we wasted proving something like depression is "real"?
Brent W. Roberts
Hey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"...
