Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)
A. Fried
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Paperback. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last decades, posed the problem of distinguishing science proper from non-science - in par ticular, from metaphysics, from pseudo-science, from the non rational or irrational, or from the untestable or the empirically meaningless. In psychiatric theory, the demarcation question appears as a problem of distinguishing the sane from the insane, the well from the mentally ill. The parallelism is interesting when the criteria for what fails to be scientific are seen to be congruent with ... Read more
There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last decades, posed the problem of distinguishing science proper from non-science - in par ticular, from metaphysics, from pseudo-science, from the non rational or irrational, or from the untestable or the empirically meaningless. In psychiatric theory, the demarcation question appears as a problem of distinguishing the sane from the insane, the well from the mentally ill. The parallelism is interesting when the criteria for what fails to be scientific are seen to be congruent with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Condition
New
Weight
350g
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027707055
SKU
V9789027707055
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99-15
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