{"product_id":"9783031744778","title":"In Defence of Psychiatric Diagnoses (2025. xiv, 251 S. XIV, 251 p. 210 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis open access book makes a distinctive contribution by providing a novel defence of psychiatric diagnoses. It defends psychiatric diagnoses by portraying them as idealised models understood in a neo-Kantian sense. It reject accounts which see psychiatric diagnoses as biomedical entities or as natural kinds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon this neo-Kantian approach to scientific models, the book provides a novel metaphysical account of what psychiatric diagnoses are and novel epistemological guidelines for constructing psychiatric diagnoses. Psychiatric diagnoses are portrayed as models which abstract away from particular aspects of particular people to create generalised models that are applicable to multiple people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Defence of Psychiatric Diagnoses \u003c\/em\u003eis essential reading for all scholars and researchers of the philosophy of science especially those focussing on the philosophy of psychiatry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Psychiatry and the Philosophy of Psychiatry.- Chapter 3: Neo-Kantianism.- Chapter 4: Neo-Kantian understanding of symptoms.- Chapter 5: Neo-Kantianism and scientific entities.- Chapter 6: Neo-Kantianism and causes.- Chapter 7: Individual people.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSam Fellowes\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Politics and Religion at the University of Lancaster, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND; LANCAS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865534214379,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":238.03,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783031744778-1.jpg?v=1781717770","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9783031744778","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}