Metaphysics of psychopathology

Zachar, Peter

Metaphysics of psychopathology - London MIT 2014 - xi, 274 p. illustrations 24 cm. - Philosophical psychopathology .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: psychiatry, science wars, and the problem of realism -- A scientifically-inspired pragmatism -- Instrumental nominalism -- Psychological and scientific essentialism -- Misplaced literalism -- Literalism and the distrust of authority -- The objective within, not beyond, experience -- Classification and the concept of psychiatric disorder -- Four conceptual abstractions: natural kind, historical concept, normative concept and practical kind -- Can grief really be a disorder? -- Is narcissistic personality disorder real? -- Psychiatry, progress, and thinking philosophically about philosophical concepts.

9780262027045

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Psychology, Pathological.
Metaphysics.

RC435 / .Z33 2014

616.89 / ZA-M

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