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Paranoia
Fried, A.; Agassi, Joseph
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Description for Paranoia
Hardback. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 524.
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
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027707048
SKU
V9789027707048
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