Analysis 76 (3):290-296 (2016)
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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.
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Keywords | Psychiatry Mental Disorder Externalism |
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DOI | 10.1093/analys/anw038 |
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