Book contents
- Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology
- Advance Praise for Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology
- Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- General Introduction
- Part I Neuroscience, Mechanisms, and RDoC
- Part II Phenomenology, Biological Psychology, and the Mind–Body Problem
- Section 4
- Section 5
- 13 Introduction
- 14 Can Psychiatry Dispense with the Appeal to Mental Causation?
- 15 Folk Psychology and Jaspers’ Empathic Understanding: A Conceptual Exercise?
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Part III Taxonomy, Integration, and Multiple Levels of Explanation
- Index
- References
13 - Introduction
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Book contents
- Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology
- Advance Praise for Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology
- Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- General Introduction
- Part I Neuroscience, Mechanisms, and RDoC
- Part II Phenomenology, Biological Psychology, and the Mind–Body Problem
- Section 4
- Section 5
- 13 Introduction
- 14 Can Psychiatry Dispense with the Appeal to Mental Causation?
- 15 Folk Psychology and Jaspers’ Empathic Understanding: A Conceptual Exercise?
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Part III Taxonomy, Integration, and Multiple Levels of Explanation
- Index
- References
Summary
In Chapter 14, John Campbell, a renowned analytic philosopher, is discussing the issue of mental causation and its possible replacement by neuroscientific explanatory models. What is a mental causation? In this moment, you the readers are engaged in a perceptual-motor activity by reading these lines. You probably have a desire to read this particular book and believe that you can obtain a copy from the Amazon service. You have bought the book and are now reading it either in a paperback or in a Kindle version. Your desire to read this book is most likely embedded in a wider interest in theoretical issues of psychiatry.
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- Levels of Analysis in PsychopathologyCross-Disciplinary Perspectives, pp. 171 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
References
Bleuler, E. (1950) Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias (J. Zinkin, trans.). New York: International Universities Press.Google Scholar
Jaspers, K. (1963) General Psychopathology (7th ed., J. Hoenig & M. W. Hamilton, trans.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar