“She draws on the scientific literature on mental illness, philosophical literature on the self, and the ethics literature on what contributes to human flourishing to facilitate the expansion of psychiatric …
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“Contrary to recent opinion, there is such a thing as the self, and it is empirically amenable to scientific investigation…” The self does exist, and is amenable to scientific investigation …
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I am taking this opportunity to talk about the main arguments in my article “The Missing Self in Scientific Psychiatry,” which is recently published in Syhthese: An International Journal for …
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Tekin, Ş. 2016. Are Mental Disorders Natural Kinds? Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2016/02/are-mental-disorders-natural-kinds.html.
“Ulric Neisser, an American psychologist and one of the founders of cognitive psychology died last month. Neisser’s life, including his major contributions to the revolution of the study of the …
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“John Schwenkler’s thought-provoking survey on the climate for women in empirically-informed philosophy of mind prompts me to think more carefully about what empirically-informed philosophy of mind actually is. Are there …
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“Given the limited health care resources offered to psychiatric patients, and the limited time each patient is allotted for face to face psychotherapeutic treatment (see for instance Gardiner Harris’s[2] recent …