Externalist Psychiatry

Will Davies

doi:10.1093/analys/anw038

Externalist Psychiatry

Will Davies

Philosophy

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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
Pages (from-to)	290-296
Journal	Analysis
Volume	76
Issue number	3
Early online date	30 May 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anw038
Publication status	Published - Jul 2016

Keywords

Psychiatry
Mental Illness
Externalism

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