Psychological concepts and biological psychiatry : a philosophical analysis
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Psychological concepts and biological psychiatry : a philosophical analysis
（Advances in consciousness research, v.28）
John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-329) and index
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This interdisciplinary work addresses the question, What role should psychological conceptualization play for thinkers who believe that the brain is the organ of the mind? It offers readers something unique both by systematically comparing the writings of eliminativist philosophers of mind with the writings of the most committed proponents of biological psychiatry, and by critically scrutinizing their shared "anti-anthropomorphism" from the standpoint of a diagnostician and therapist. Contradicting the contemporary assumption that common sense psychology has already been proven futile, and we are just waiting for an adequate scientifically-based replacement, this book provides explicit philosophical and psychological arguments showing why, if they did not already have both cognitive and psychodynamic psychologies, philosophers and scientists would have to invent them to better understand brains. (Series A)
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface: What this book is about
- 2. PART I: THE ATTACK ON PSYCHOLOGY
- 3. 1. Psychology In Trouble
- 4. 2. Trouble From Psychiatry: Biomedical Materialism
- 5. 3. Trouble From Philosophy: Eliminative Materialism
- 6. PART II: THE ROBUSTNESS OF PSYCHOLOGY
- 7. 4. Why There is No Such Thing as "Folk Psychology"
- 8. 5. A Critique of Anti-anthropomorphism
- 9. 6. The Anchors of Psychology
- 10. 7. Materialism Without Physicalism
- 11. PART III: THE PSYCHOLOGY IN PSYCHIATRY
- 12. 8. Diagnosis, Behavior, and First-Person Information
- 13. 9 . Evolution, Adaptation, and Psychiatry
- 14. 10. Psychiatry, Science, and Anti-essentialism
- 15. 11. Psychiatry and Reality
- 16. 12. Psychiatry and the Rhetoric of Morality
- 17. 13. Reflections
- 18. References
- 19. Name Index
- 20. Subject Index
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