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
2013031917
Psychology, Pathological.
Metaphysics.
RC435 / .Z33 2014
616.89 / ZA-M
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
2013031917
Psychology, Pathological.
Metaphysics.
RC435 / .Z33 2014
616.89 / ZA-M