{"product_id":"in-defence-of-psychiatric-diagnoses","title":"In Defence of Psychiatric Diagnoses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e In Defence of Psychiatric Diagnoses (Hardcover, 265 pages) – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThis open access book makes a distinctive contribution by providing a novel defence of psychiatric diagnoses. It defends psychiatric diagnoses by portraying them as idealised models understood in a neo-Kantian sense. It reject accounts which see psychiatric diagnoses as biomedical entities or as natural kinds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon this neo-Kantian approach to scientific models, the book provides a novel metaphysical account of what psychiatric diagnoses are and novel epistemological guidelines for constructing psychiatric diagnoses. Psychiatric diagnoses are portrayed as models which abstract away from particular aspects of particular people to create generalised models that are applicable to multiple people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Defence of Psychiatric Diagnoses is essential reading for all scholars and researchers of the philosophy of science especially those focussing on the philosophy of psychiatry.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n        About the Author   \u003cp\u003eSam Fellowes is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Politics and Religion at the University of Lancaster, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e      ","brand":"Sam Fellowes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46070554329322,"sku":"9783031744778","price":127.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/7167pxSTn-L._SL1500.jpg?v=1781269950","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/in-defence-of-psychiatric-diagnoses","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}