Veit, Walter (2020) Biological Normativity: A New Hope for Naturalism? [Preprint]
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Since Boorse (1977) published his paper "Health as a theoretical concept" one of the most lively debates within philosophy of medicine has been on the question of whether health and disease are in some sense 'objective' and `value-free' or 'subjective' and 'value-laden'. Due to the apparent `failure' of pure naturalist, constructivist, or normativist accounts, much in the recent literature has appealed to more conciliatory approaches or so-called 'hybrid accounts' of health and disease. A recent paper by Matthewson and Griffiths (2017), however, may bear the seeds for the revival of purely naturalist approach to health and disease. In this paper, I defend their idea of Biological Normativity against recent criticism by Schwartz (2017) and hope to help it flower into a revival of naturalist approaches in the philosophy of medicine.
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| Additional Information: | Veit, W. (forthcoming). Biological Normativity: A New Hope for Naturalism? – \textit{Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy}, pp. 1-25. | ||||||
| Keywords: | biological normativity; Boorse; Wakefield; health; disease; naturalism | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Natural Kinds |
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| Depositing User: | Mr. Walter Veit | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2020 16:13 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2020 16:13 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 18485 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Natural Kinds |
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| Date: | 2020 | ||||||
| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18485 |
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