This special section evolved out of a workshop entitled ‘Minds and Brains in Everyday Life: Embedding and Negotiating Scientific Concepts in Popular Discourses’, held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Our discussions at the workshop and for this special section began with the observation that scientific interpretations and everyday explanations regularly meet and come together in debates about aspects of the mind and the brain. Such entanglements between science and the wider public have already been studied from multiple perspectives in history and the social sciences. Recently, however, warnings have intensified that researchers also need to take into account the limitations that certain scientific claims may encounter in everyday life, and to remain methodologically open to alternative explanations that are not derived from forms of (neuro)psychological knowledge. We suggest that focusing on contested narratives of the mind and the brain may be one approach to studying the interaction between science and the larger public, as well as investigating the ignorance, limits, counterforces, and outright rejection that scientific concepts may encounter in everyday life.

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简介：心智和大脑的有争议的叙述：流行辩论和日常生活中的神经/心理知识

这个特别部分源自于爱丁堡大学人文高级研究所举办的题为“日常生活中的思想和大脑：在流行话语中嵌入和谈判科学概念”的研讨会。我们在研讨会和这个特别部分的讨论开始于观察到科学解释和日常解释经常在关于思想和大脑方面的辩论中相遇和聚集在一起。科学与广大公众之间的这种纠葛已经从历史和社会科学的多个角度进行了研究。然而，最近警告越来越多，研究人员还需要考虑某些科学主张在日常生活中可能遇到的局限性，并在方法论上对并非源自（神经）心理学知识形式的替代解释保持开放。我们建议关注有争议的思想和大脑的叙述可能是研究科学与广大公众之间互动的一种方法，以及调查科学概念在日常生活中可能遇到的无知、限制、反作用力和彻底拒绝.