ABSTRACT
There can be few better examples of the limits that hard-won knowledge in the humanities places on contemporary neuroscience than the problem of ‘other minds’. This philosophical problem reminds cognitive neuroscientists that they can never make external observations upon their object of study: the mind. The mind is not an object. You can only know your own. But science demands objectivity. So this problem – the radically subjective nature of the mind – apparently makes it impossible to have a science of the mind. It makes ‘scientific psychology’ an oxymoron.
