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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction: Science Wars, Psychiatry, and the Problem of Realism -
2 A Scientifically Inspired Pragmatism -
3 Instrumental Nominalism -
4 Psychological and Scientific Essentialism -
5 Misplaced Literalism -
6 Literalism and the Distrust of Authority -
7 The Objective Within, Not Beyond, Experience -
8 Classification and the Concept of Psychiatric Disorder -
9 Four Conceptual Abstractions: Natural Kind, Historical Concept, Normative Concept, and Practical Kind -
10 Can Grief Really Be a Disorder? -
11 Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder Real? -
12 Psychiatry, Progress, and Metaphysics - Glossary
- References
- Index
(p.viii) Preface and Acknowledgments (p.ix)
(p.viii) Preface and Acknowledgments (p.ix)
- Source:
- A Metaphysics of Psychopathology
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction: Science Wars, Psychiatry, and the Problem of Realism -
2 A Scientifically Inspired Pragmatism -
3 Instrumental Nominalism -
4 Psychological and Scientific Essentialism -
5 Misplaced Literalism -
6 Literalism and the Distrust of Authority -
7 The Objective Within, Not Beyond, Experience -
8 Classification and the Concept of Psychiatric Disorder -
9 Four Conceptual Abstractions: Natural Kind, Historical Concept, Normative Concept, and Practical Kind -
10 Can Grief Really Be a Disorder? -
11 Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder Real? -
12 Psychiatry, Progress, and Metaphysics - Glossary
- References
- Index
