| Description |
1 online resource (XIX, 340 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Advances in consciousness research ; v. 28
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Advances in consciousness research ; v. 28.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: What this book is about -- pt. I. The Attack of Psychology. 1. Psychology In Trouble. 2. Trouble From Psychiatry: Biomedical Materialism. 3. Trouble From Philosophy: Eliminative Materialism -- pt. II. The Robustness of Psychology. 4. Why There is No Such Thing as "Folk Psychology" 5. A Critique of Anti-anthropomorphism. 6. The Anchors of Psychology. 7. Materialism Without Physicalism -- pt. III. The Psychology in Psychiatry. 8. Diagnosis, Behavior, and First-Person Information. 9. Evolution, Adaptation, and Psychiatry. 10. Psychiatry, Science, and Anti-essentialism. 11. Psychiatry and Reality. 12. Psychiatry and the Rhetoric of Morality. 13. Reflections. |
| Summary |
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. Contradicitng the contemporary assumption that common sense psychology has already been proven futile, and we. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychology -- Philosophy.
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Psychology -- Philosophy. |
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Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
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Psychiatry -- Philosophy. |
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Psychological Theory. |
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Philosophy. |
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Psychiatry. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zachar, Peter. Psychological concepts and biological psychiatry. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2000 (DLC) 00056430 |
| ISBN |
9789027299864 (electronic book) |
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9027299862 (electronic book) |
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1556199910 |
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9027251487 (Eur.) |
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