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Mahfoud, Tara; McLean, Sam; Rose, Nikolas

doi:10.1016/s0079-6123(17)30098-5

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“…(Rose and Rose, 2016: 82) It is now almost 20 years since the so-called 'decade of the brain' came to an end, and things have changed. There now exists a community of scholars dedicated to both contemporary and historical assessment of the neurosciences -some of whom first trained as, or now collaborate with, neuroscientists -which seeks a middle way between naı ¨ve compliance and swingeing critique of the neurosciences (Mahfoud, Maclean and Rose, 2017;Pickersgill et al, 2018). The two epigraphs above are evidence that the pamphlet war continues nonetheless; but the battle lines drawn are instructive.…”

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The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences

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Visions of unification and integration: Building brains and communities in the European Human Brain Project

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The Human Brain Project (HBP) was launched in October 2013 by the European Commission to build an information and communication technology infrastructure that would support large-scale brain modelling and simulation. Less than a year after its launch, more than 800 neuroscientists signed a letter that claimed the HBP ‘would fail to meet its goals’. Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted between February 2014 and January 2017 in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the HBP headquarters in Switzerland, and over 40 interviews with scientists, engineers and project administrators, this article traces how competing visions over how brain models should be built became tied into debates over how scientific communities should be governed. Articulations of these different kinds of models and communities appealed to competing imaginaries of Europe itself – of Europe and European science as unified or pluralistic. This article argues that scientific models are sites of contestation over social and political futures. The tensions between visions of scientific unification and pluralism in the HBP mirrored the tensions between imaginaries of European political unification and pluralism.

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The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences

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