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Raymond Tallis talks to David Papineau

Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Mankind

Hay Festival 2011, 
Welcome to an all-out assault on the ‘Neuromythology’ and pseudo-Darwinian thought that is increasingly dominating discussion of human nature. Tallis pulls the rug from under neuro-aesthetics, evolutionary economics, neuro-theology and other fashionable pseudo-disciplines.