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Philosophy, psychiatry and avoiding real mischief

journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 00:21 authored by Anya DalyAnya Daly
What can philosophy offer psychiatry? What can psychiatry offer philosophy? Simply, there is nothing as harmful as a bad theory put into practice and conversely the constraints of practice and the recalcitrance of the realities of anomalous experiences offer instructive challenges to theory. We know well that the history of medicine and psychiatry have many examples of bad theory having been put into practice often with tragic consequences. Equally the extremes of armchair philosophy and far-fetched thought experiments, while keeping some philosophers busy chasing zombies or possible worlds in which minds can be uploaded into a computer hard-drives, leave philosophy open to accusations of irrelevance and obfuscation.

History

Publication title

Metapsychology Online Reviews

Volume

20

Issue

36

Pagination

1-8

ISSN

1931-5716

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Mental Help Net

Place of publication

United States

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Expanding knowledge in the biomedical and clinical sciences; Expanding knowledge in psychology