Critical Thinking versus Neurosexism
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https://doi.org/10.14422/pen.v72.i273.y2016.011Keywords:
neurosexism, sexual differences, critical neurosciences, neuroethics, sex/gender, pseudoscience.Abstract
The aim of this paper is to offer a view of the assumptions that guide the practice of claiming sex differences in the brain. After the realization that much of the research and publication of neuroscientific findings assume such a difference, we found a great deal of what has been called neurosexism. As a way to overcome it and from a feminist theory with a political commitment we propose a critical approach to the neurosciences. This is understood as a reflective collaboration between disciplines that could provide a framework for overcoming prejudices in thinking and designing science.
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