Tsou, Jonathan Y. (2022) Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification. [Preprint]
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Abstract
A minimal essentialism (‘intrinsic biological essentialism’) about natural kinds is required to explain the projectability of human science terms. Human classifications that yield robust and ampliative projectable inferences refer to biological kinds. I articulate this argument with reference to an intrinsic essentialist account of HPC kinds. This account implies that human sciences (e.g., medicine, psychiatry) that aim to formulate predictive kind categories should classify biological kinds. Issues concerning psychiatric classification and pluralism are examined.
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Item Type: | Preprint | ||||||
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Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Natural Kinds Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry |
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Depositing User: | Jonathan Y. Tsou | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 21 Apr 2022 04:05 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2022 04:05 | ||||||
Item ID: | 20474 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Natural Kinds Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry |
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Date: | 2022 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20474 |
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