Agency in Mental Disorder: Philosophical Dimensions
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Oxford University Press USA - OSO
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Oxford
Date:
2022
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1 online resource (206 pages)
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Englisch
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This volume seeks to provide a starting point for deeper and broader philosophical analyses of mental illness. It addresses various questions about the relationship between agency and mental disorder.
Cover -- Agency in Mental Disorder: Philosophical Dimensions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 0.1 Theoretical vs. Therapeutic Perspectives -- 0.2 Framing Assumptions -- 0.3 Chapter Summaries -- 0.4 From Theory to Practice: Stigma -- References -- 1: Quality of Will and (Some) Unusual Behavior -- 1.1 How I Will Not Use the Concept "Mental Disorder" -- 1.2 The Simple Quality of Will Theory -- 1.3 Conditions Involving Epistemic Irrationality or Cognitive Impairment -- 1.4 Quality of Will and Major Depression -- 1.5 Non-excusing Psychiatric Predicaments? -- References -- 2: Disordered, Disabled, Disregarded, Dismissed: The Moral Costs of Exemptions from Accountability -- 2.1 Accountability and Interpersonality -- 2.2 The Moral Price of Exemptions -- 2.3 Applying the Medical Model: The Project of Understanding -- 2.4 Applying the Social Model: The Project of Identification -- 2.5 Interpersonal Relationships and the Accountability Community -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Brain Pathology and Moral Responsibility -- 3.1 Preliminaries -- 3.1.1 Why Mental Disorders or Brain Disorders Might Excuse -- 3.1.2 The Role of the Brain and the Nature of Brain Dysfunction -- 3.1.3 The Relation between Brain Pathology, Psychological Dysfunction and Moral Responsibility -- 3.2 Brain Pathology as Evidence for Mental Dysfunction -- 3.2.1 Assessing the Evidential Role-Case Studies -- 3.3 The Causal Path and the Relevanceof Changes in Psychology -- 3.3.1 Lack of Control over Acquiring Immoral Dispositions and Constitutive Moral Luck -- 3.3.2 The Effect of Psychological Change on Morally Responsible Agency -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Taking Control with Mechanisms of Psychotherapy -- 4.1 Moral Responsibility and Disorders of Agency -- 4.2 Therapeutic Mechanisms of Change.
Cover -- Agency in Mental Disorder: Philosophical Dimensions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 0.1 Theoretical vs. Therapeutic Perspectives -- 0.2 Framing Assumptions -- 0.3 Chapter Summaries -- 0.4 From Theory to Practice: Stigma -- References -- 1: Quality of Will and (Some) Unusual Behavior -- 1.1 How I Will Not Use the Concept "Mental Disorder" -- 1.2 The Simple Quality of Will Theory -- 1.3 Conditions Involving Epistemic Irrationality or Cognitive Impairment -- 1.4 Quality of Will and Major Depression -- 1.5 Non-excusing Psychiatric Predicaments? -- References -- 2: Disordered, Disabled, Disregarded, Dismissed: The Moral Costs of Exemptions from Accountability -- 2.1 Accountability and Interpersonality -- 2.2 The Moral Price of Exemptions -- 2.3 Applying the Medical Model: The Project of Understanding -- 2.4 Applying the Social Model: The Project of Identification -- 2.5 Interpersonal Relationships and the Accountability Community -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Brain Pathology and Moral Responsibility -- 3.1 Preliminaries -- 3.1.1 Why Mental Disorders or Brain Disorders Might Excuse -- 3.1.2 The Role of the Brain and the Nature of Brain Dysfunction -- 3.1.3 The Relation between Brain Pathology, Psychological Dysfunction and Moral Responsibility -- 3.2 Brain Pathology as Evidence for Mental Dysfunction -- 3.2.1 Assessing the Evidential Role-Case Studies -- 3.3 The Causal Path and the Relevanceof Changes in Psychology -- 3.3.1 Lack of Control over Acquiring Immoral Dispositions and Constitutive Moral Luck -- 3.3.2 The Effect of Psychological Change on Morally Responsible Agency -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Taking Control with Mechanisms of Psychotherapy -- 4.1 Moral Responsibility and Disorders of Agency -- 4.2 Therapeutic Mechanisms of Change.
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Universität Erfurt
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+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
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