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Functional Indeterminacy, Addiction, and the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis

Kern, Matthew (2024) Functional Indeterminacy, Addiction, and the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

According to Jerome Wakefield’s harmful dysfunction account of mental disorder, a mental disorder must involve an objective dysfunction couched in evolutionary terms. However, selected effects functions are indeterminate, because the same trait can be both selectively advantageous and disadvantageous. Therefore, in some cases there may be a dysfunction, on the basis of which a psychiatric disorder is attributed, that can be described in multiple empirically adequate ways. The choices involved in these cases are value-laden. Some cases of addiction may fit this mold. Indeterminacy in the alternative descriptions of the states/processes/mechanisms involved in addiction implicates opposing value judgments.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:
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Kern, Matthewkern.m@wustl.edu
Keywords: psychiatry, addiction, functions, indeterminacy, mental disorder
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology
Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory
Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology
Specific Sciences > Medicine
Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry
Specific Sciences > Psychology
General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User: Matthew Kern
Date Deposited: 16 Jul 2024 06:00
Last Modified: 16 Jul 2024 06:00
Item ID: 23697
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology
Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory
Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology
Specific Sciences > Medicine
Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry
Specific Sciences > Psychology
General Issues > Values In Science
Date: 12 July 2024
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23697

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