Tsou, Jonathan Y. (2025) Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry. [Preprint]

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This chapter examines the history of philosophy of psychology and philosophy of psychiatry as subfields of philosophy of science that emerged in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. The chapter also surveys related literatures that developed in psychology and psychiatry. Philosophy of psychology (or philosophy of cognitive science) has been a well-established subfield of philosophy of mind since the 1990s and 2000s. This field of philosophy of psychology is narrowly focused on issues in cognitive psychology and cognitive science. Compared to the thriving subfield of philosophy of cognitive science, there has been a lack of corresponding interest among philosophers of science in broader methodological questions about different paradigms and fields of study in psychology. These broader methodological questions about psychology have been addressed in the field of theoretical psychology, which is a subfield of psychology that materialized in the 1980s and 1990s. Philosophy of psychiatry emerged as a subfield of philosophy of science in the mid-2000s. Compared to philosophy of psychology, the philosophy of psychiatry literature in philosophy of science engaged with issues examined in an older and more interdisciplinary tradition of philosophy of psychiatry that developed after the 1960s. The participation of philosophers of science in the literature on theoretical psychology, by contrast, has been limited.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Tsou, Jonathan Y. Jonathan.Tsou@utdallas.edu 0000-0002-3939-1518
Keywords:	philosophy of psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of cognitive science, history and philosophy of science
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Medicine Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry Specific Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	Jonathan Y. Tsou
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2024 18:14
Last Modified:	29 Jun 2024 18:14
Item ID:	23654
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Medicine Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry Specific Sciences > Psychology
Date:	2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23654

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