Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

The Myth of Neuropsychiatry pp 31–45Cite as

Neuropsychiatry and the Philosophy of Mind

  • Chapter

  • 46 Accesses

Abstract

We have seen that neuropsychiatry produces problematic empirical data, research designs, clinical practices, and, most importantly, ethical implications. However, its negative philosophical impact is more than ethical; neuropsychiatry distorts other aspects of philosophy as well.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Notes

  1. Donald Palmer, Does the Center Hold? (Mountain View: May-field, 1991), pp. 18–23.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Frattaroli, pp. 73–76.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Donald Palmer, Looking at Philosophy (Mountain View: May-field, 1988), pp. 4–32, 69.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Diane Collinson, Fifty Major Philosophers (London: Croom Helm, 1987), pp. 17–18.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  5. Anthony Flew, A Dictionary of Philosophy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979), pp. 88, 203.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Palmer, Looking at Philosophy, pp. 36–37.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Stephen Priest, Theories of the Mind (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), p. 99.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Hearnshaw, p. 115.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Capra, pp. 105–107.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Thorne, ed., p. 975.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Thomas Hobbes, “Of Sense,” in The Philosophy of Mind, eds. Brian Beakley and Peter Ludlow (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992), p. 11.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Aviel Goodman, “Organic Unity Theory: The Mind-Body Problem Revisited,” American Journal of Psychiatry 148:5 (May 1991), p. 554.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Palmer, Looking at Philosophy, p. 159.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Priest, p. 100.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Collinson, pp. 51–56.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Flew, pp. 150–152.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Priest, pp. 100–101.

    Google Scholar 

  18. Hearnshaw, pp. 115–116.

    Google Scholar 

  19. Thorne, ed., p. 593.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Palmer, Does the Center Hold? pp. 153–159.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Priest, p. 98.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Palmer, Does the Center Hold? p. 158.

    Google Scholar 

  23. U. T. Place, “Is Consciousness a Brain Process?,” in Beakley and Ludlow, eds., The Philosophy of Mind, pp. 33–39.

    Google Scholar 

  24. Priest, pp. 102–115.

    Google Scholar 

  25. Epiphenomenalism is said by some to approach a “weak” form of dualism.

    Google Scholar 

  26. John Eccles, “A Critical Appraisal of Mind-Brain Theories,” in Cerebral Correlates of Conscious Experience, eds., Buser and Rougeul-Buser (Oxford: Elsevier, 1978), p. 349.

    Google Scholar 

  27. Goodman, p. 554.

    Google Scholar 

  28. G. E. Hutchinson, “Man Talking or Thinking,” American Scientist 64 (January-February 1976), p. 25.

    Google Scholar 

  29. Priest, pp. 3–4.

    Google Scholar 

  30. Palmer, Does the Center Hold? pp. 160–161.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Eccles, p. 348.

    Google Scholar 

  32. Flanagan, p. 222.

    Google Scholar 

  33. Palmer, Does the Center Hold? pp. 158–159.

    Google Scholar 

  34. Eccles, p. 350.

    Google Scholar 

  35. Palmer, Does the Center Hold? pp. 352–353.

    Google Scholar 

  36. Priest, p. 98.

    Google Scholar 

  37. Palmer, Looking at Philosophy, pp. 4–32, 69.

    Google Scholar 

  38. Flew, pp. 41–44.

    Google Scholar 

  39. Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945), pp. 647–659.

    Google Scholar 

  40. Geoffrey Warnock, “Berkeley, George,” in Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion, pp. 82–83.

    Google Scholar 

  41. Palmer, Looking at Philosophy, pp. 36, 192–194.

    Google Scholar 

  42. Priest, p. 79.

    Google Scholar 

  43. Ibid., pp. 80–97.

    Google Scholar 

  44. Collinson, pp. 96–100.

    Google Scholar 

  45. Flew, pp. 139–143.

    Google Scholar 

  46. Richard Gregory, “Hegel,” in Gregory, ed., The Oxford Com-panion, p. 308.

    Google Scholar 

  47. Russell, pp. 730–746.

    Google Scholar 

  48. Roger Scruton, Prom Descartes to Wittgenstein (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), pp. 165–180.

    Google Scholar 

  49. Peter Singer, Hegel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 1–8.

    Google Scholar 

  50. Collinson, pp. 81–86.

    Google Scholar 

  51. Gregory, “Hume, David,” in Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion, pp. 319–320.

    Google Scholar 

  52. Flew, pp, 153–156.

    Google Scholar 

  53. Russell, pp. 659–674.

    Google Scholar 

  54. Scruton, Prom Descartes to Wittgenstein, pp. 120–133.

    Google Scholar 

  55. Collinson, pp. 89–94.

    Google Scholar 

  56. John Cottingham, “Kant, Immanuel,” in Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion, p. 406.

    Google Scholar 

  57. Flew, pp. 189–194.

    Google Scholar 

  58. Russell, pp. 701–718.

    Google Scholar 

  59. Scruton, Prom Descartes to Wittgenstein, pp. 137–164.

    Google Scholar 

  60. Roger Scruton, Kant (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), pp. 1–10.

    Google Scholar 

  61. Flanagan, pp. 40, 64.

    Google Scholar 

  62. Palmer, Looking at Philosophy, pp. 192–194.

    Google Scholar 

  63. Priest, p. 79.

    Google Scholar 

  64. Palmer, Does the Center Hold? pp. 181–201.

    Google Scholar 

  65. E. T. Bell, Men of Mathematics (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965), pp. 35–52.

    Google Scholar 

  66. Collinson, pp. 57–60.

    Google Scholar 

  67. John G. Cottingham, “Descartes, René,” in Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion, pp. 189–190.

    Google Scholar 

  68. Flew, pp. 89–92.

    Google Scholar 

  69. Russell, pp. 557–560.

    Google Scholar 

  70. Scruton, From Descartes to Wittgenstein, pp. 29–49.

    Google Scholar 

  71. René Descartes, “Passions of the Soul Brain,” in Beakley and Ludlow, eds., The Philosophy of Mind, p. 110.

    Google Scholar 

  72. Eccles, pp. 351–353.

    Google Scholar 

  73. Jerry Fodor, “The Mind-Body Problem,” Scientific American 244 (January 1981), p. 114.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  74. Goodman, pp. 554–555.

    Google Scholar 

  75. Hutchinson, p. 25.

    Google Scholar 

  76. Scruton, From Descartes to Wittgenstein, pp. 123, 125–126.

    Google Scholar 

  77. Leibnitz also had mathematical interests and created a computing machine, though his innovations in symbolic logic were overlooked for more than a century and a half. His substantial contributions in developing the calculus were also given short shrift for many years.

    Google Scholar 

  78. E. X. Bell, pp. 117–130.

    Google Scholar 

  79. Collinson, pp. 57–60.

    Google Scholar 

  80. Flanagan, pp. 40, 64.

    Google Scholar 

  81. Flew, pp. 198–202.

    Google Scholar 

  82. Fodor, p. 114.

    Google Scholar 

  83. Goodman, pp. 553, 555.

    Google Scholar 

  84. G. W. F. Leibnitz, “Illustrated by the Analogy of the Two Clocks,” in Flew, ed., Body, Mind, and Death, pp. 152–153.

    Google Scholar 

  85. G. MacDonald Ross, Leibnitz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 3–27.

    Google Scholar 

  86. Russell, pp. 581–582.

    Google Scholar 

  87. Scruton, From Descartes to Wittgenstein, pp. 67–77.

    Google Scholar 

  88. Ralph Walker, “Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr Von,” in Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion, pp. 57–60.

    Google Scholar 

  89. Priest, pp. 85–111.

    Google Scholar 

  90. Goodman, pp. 556–558, 561.

    Google Scholar 

  91. Flanagan, pp. 14–16, 31, 42–43, 58–62, 217–220.

    Google Scholar 

  92. Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine (London: Penguin, 1967), pp. 34, 61–62, 104, 212.

    Google Scholar 

  93. Ibid., pp. 50, 64–67, 190, 205, 211, 216–217.

    Google Scholar 

  94. Palmer, Does the Center Hold? pp. 134, 136–137.

    Google Scholar 

  95. Palmer, Looking at Philosophy, p. 159.

    Google Scholar 

  96. The “wilderness” of endlessly emergent dualisms has its roots in the writings of John Stuart Mill, who alluded to emergence in this philosophy, and of Henri Bergson, who extended emergent concepts specifically to biological evolution. A modern psychiatrist has speculated that current attempts to frame human selfhood within an emergent scheme fuel psychiatry’s conceptual “oscillations” (Freed-man, pp. 860, 866; Goodman, p. 554; Hearnshaw, p. 121).

    Google Scholar 

  97. Eccles, pp. 348–350.

    Google Scholar 

  98. Fodor, pp. 116–117.

    Google Scholar 

  99. Goodman, pp. 554–561.

    Google Scholar 

  100. Palmer, Looking at Philosophy, pp. 163–169.

    Google Scholar 

  101. Priest, pp. 150–182.

    Google Scholar 

  102. Collinson, pp. 69–73.

    Google Scholar 

  103. Flew, pp. 334–337.

    Google Scholar 

  104. Joanna North, “Spinoza, Benedict (Baruch) de,” in Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion, pp. 737–739.

    Google Scholar 

  105. Russell, pp. 569–570.

    Google Scholar 

  106. Scruton, From Descartes to Wittgenstein, pp. 50–66.

    Google Scholar 

  107. Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics,” in Flew, ed., Body, Mind, and Death, p. 146.

    Google Scholar 

  108. Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World (Woodbridge: Ox Bow Press, 1983), pp. 43, 214.

    Google Scholar 

  109. Eccles, pp. 348–350.

    Google Scholar 

  110. Goodman, pp. 554–561.

    Google Scholar 

  111. Palmer, Looking at Philosophy, pp. 4–32, 69, 163–169.

    Google Scholar 

  112. Priest, pp. 150–182.

    Google Scholar 

  113. Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind (New York: Crown, 1981), p. 20.

    Google Scholar 

  114. Priest, pp. 22, 155.

    Google Scholar 

  115. Flanagan, p. 341.

    Google Scholar 

  116. Koestler, p. 201.

    Google Scholar 

  117. David Oldroyd, The Arch of Knowledge (New York: Methuen 1986), p. 24.

    Google Scholar 

  118. Palmer, Looking at Philosophy, p. 80.

    Google Scholar 

  119. Priest, pp. 81–82.

    Google Scholar 

  120. E. T. Bell, pp. 362–377.

    Google Scholar 

  121. Edna Kramer, The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), pp. 368–400.

    Google Scholar 

  122. Ibid., pp. 401–433.

    Google Scholar 

  123. Ibid., pp. 368–401.

    Google Scholar 

  124. Tony Rothman, “The Short Life of Evariste Galois,” Scientific American 246 (April 1982), pp. 136–149.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  125. W. W. Sawyer, A Concrete Approach to Abstract Algebra (New York: Dover, 1959), pp. 77–78.

    Google Scholar 

  126. Lawrence Sklar, Space, Time, and Spacetime (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 50.

    Google Scholar 

  127. Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), p. 3.

    Google Scholar 

  128. Herbert Bernstein and Anthony Phillips, “Fiber Bundles and Quantum Theory,” Scientific American 245 (July 1981), p. 125.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  129. P. Davies, Space and Time in the Modern Universe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), pp. 9–10.

    Google Scholar 

  130. Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory, p. 3.

    Google Scholar 

  131. Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1965), pp. 84–85.

    Google Scholar 

  132. Ibid., pp. 92–94.

    Google Scholar 

  133. John Briggs and F. David Peat, Looking Glass Universe (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), pp. 60–62.

    Google Scholar 

  134. Feynman, p. 84.

    Google Scholar 

  135. Goodman, p. 561.

    Google Scholar 

  136. Hearnshaw, p. 127.

    Google Scholar 

  137. Hutchinson, p. 25.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Donald Mender M. D.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1994 Donald Mender

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Mender, D. (1994). Neuropsychiatry and the Philosophy of Mind. In: The Myth of Neuropsychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6010-8_3

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6010-8_3

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA

  • Print ISBN: 978-0-306-44652-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4899-6010-8

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation