A Reconciliation for the Future of Psychiatry: Both Folk Psychology and Cognitive Science
Frontiers in Psychiatry July 1, 2016 Daniel Douglas Hutto
Philosophy of psychiatry faces a tough choice between two competing ways of understanding mental disorders. The folk psychology or FP view puts our everyday normative conceptual scheme in the driver’s seat – on the assumption that it, and it only, tells us what mental disorders are (Graham 2009). Opposing this, the scientific image or SI view (Murphy 2006, Gerrans 2014) holds that our...