tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000112411257934750.post3967879209581162935..comments2023-04-11T07:08:05.232-07:00Comments on the sap also rises: objectivityvaughn tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16739209101550945403noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000112411257934750.post-91948393732355855102008-12-08T21:43:00.000-08:002008-12-08T21:43:00.000-08:00that's a hazy zone -- the reason why the social sc...that's a hazy zone -- the reason why the social sciences require this variety of bounded objectivity is because of the limits of knowledge of the true internal state of the observed agent. neuro advances give us the ability to observe pretty granular changes in physiology and, presumably, connect them to observed behaviour but the gulf between our understanding of observed behaviour and the agent's understanding of his motives for behaving remains unbridgeable.vaughn tanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16739209101550945403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000112411257934750.post-27773754761660642822008-12-08T21:37:00.000-08:002008-12-08T21:37:00.000-08:00Do you think this is true of moral cognition? I t...Do you think this is true of moral cognition? I think provisos for this could be made presuming adequate the technology. I wonder what he would think of the field given advances in brain mapping, optogenetics, nano-enhanced fMRI etc...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14491841196790518517noreply@blogger.com