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Psychiatric classif...
Psychiatric classification and empiricist theories of meaning.
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- Malmgren, Helge, 1945 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Filosofiska institutionen,Department of Philosophy
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- 1993
- 1993
- English.
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In: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Suppl. - 0065-1591. ; 373, s. 48-64
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- The philosophical background of the contemporary debate over psychiatric classification is reviewed in some detail. It is shown that the philosophy behind DSM-III and DSM-III-R is based on a theory about the semantic status of operational definitions, which was abandoned several decades ago by empiricist philosophers of science. It is argued that the newer empiricist and realist theories of meaning developed after 1960, particularly the idea of an indirect specification of meaning through contingent operational criteria, offer a better foundation for psychiatric classification.
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Filosofi (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Philosophy (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Psykiatri (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Psychiatry (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Psychiatry
- classification
- empiricism
- logical positivism
- realism
- natural kinds
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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