Abstract
Psychiatry widely assumes an internalist biomedical model of mental illness. I argue that many of psychiatry’s diagnostic categories involve an implicit commitment to constitutive externalism about mental illness. Some of these categories are socially externalist in nature.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 290-296 |
Journal | Analysis |
Volume | 76 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 30 May 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2016 |
Keywords
- Psychiatry
- Mental Illness
- Externalism