I further argue that the only position about the nature of mental states that erases the epistemological gap between introspection and third-person access to our inner states is eliminative materialism. I review all the positions about the nature of mental states that establish a category of mental privacy and conclude that none of those views can support both the claim that there is a category of mental privacy and that this type of privacy can be violated through the use of brain imaging.
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) poses a threat to mental privacy and that this type of privacy requires extra protections.
I challenge the argument that the use of. Several authors have cited potential infringement on privacy as one of the primary ethical issues related to the application of brain imaging technology to clinical, research, and legal contexts. Improvements in our ability to identify brain function as it is occurring through brain imaging have brought to the forefront the issue of mental privacy. From this shared perspective it is easy to see the appeal the neuroscientific turn holds for those interested in melding collaborations among researchers from neuroscience and scholars from the humanities and social sciences. Of course these are also questions motivating scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Many neuroscientists want to know how it is that the activities of the cells of the nervous system, individually and collectively, contribute to our ability to see beauty, take pleasure from reading and writing, appreciate music, mull over past experiences, make plans for the future, and contemplate "big questions" such as the purpose of life.
What initially attracts someone to study neuroscience, regardless of what aspects of nervous system function an individual career may become focused on (e.g., basic functions of the synapse), is the allure of contributing knowledge that deepens our understanding of our minds. The common ground is a shared desire to understand the workings of the human mind. Research questions of interest to neuroscientists share a natural overlap with those pursued by scholars studying philosophy, art, music, history, or literature.
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