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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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Date: | 12 July 2024 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23697 |
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