Psychological concepts and biological psychiatry a philosophical analysis

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zachar, Peter (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub c2000.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 28.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798510406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS AND BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface: What this book is about
  • PART I: THE ATTACK ON PSYCHOLOGY
  • Chapter 1. Psychology in Trouble
  • Chapter 2. Trouble from Psychiatry: Biomedical materialism
  • Chapter 3. Trouble From Philosophy: Eliminative materialism
  • PART II: THE ROBUSTNESS OF PSYCHOLOGY
  • Chapter 4. Why there is no such thing as "Folk Psychology"
  • Chapter 5. A Critique of Anti-Anthropomorphism
  • Chapter 6. The Anchors of Psychology
  • Chapter 7. Materialism Without Physicalism
  • PART III: THE PSYCHOLOGY IN PSYCHIATRY
  • Chapter 8. Diagnosis, Behavior, and First-Person Information
  • Chapter 9. Evolution, Adaptation, and Psychiatry
  • Chapter 10. Psychiatry, Science, and Anti-essentialism
  • Chapter 11. Psychiatry and Reality
  • Chapter 12. Psychiatry and the Rhetoric of Morality
  • Chapter 13. Reflections
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index.