Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?

ISBN-13: 9780367421380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 100 str.

Anneli Jefferson

Opis

Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? brings philosophical clarity to this important question and will be of interest to students and researchers in the philosophies of mind and psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, and conceptual issues in mental health.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, 2. Brain disorders – The narrow view, 3. A workable notion of brain dysfunction, 4. Objections and clarifications, 5. Implications for agency and responsibility, 6. Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Anneli Jefferson is Lecturer in Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK. Her main research areas are moral philosophy and philosophy of psychology and psychiatry. She is especially interested in the intersection of these areas, for example in questions relating to moral psychology or the relationship between mental illness and moral responsibility.