| Description |
v, 243 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement, 1358-2461 ; 37 |
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Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 37
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| Contents |
Mind and madness: new directions in the philosophy of psychiatry / K.W.M. Fulford -- Emotion and memory: the second cognitive revolution / Rom Harré -- Meaning and mechanism in psychotherapy and general psychiatry / Jeremy Holmes -- Making sense on the boundaries: on moving between philosophy and psychotherapy / John Shotter -- Mental disorder, illness and biological disfunction / David Papineau -- Integrity, boundary and the ecology of personal processes / Peter Binns -- Multiple personality and computational models / Margaret A. Boden -- Psychology and politics: lies, damned lies and self-deception / K.V. Wilkes -- Personal identity and psychiatric illness / Tony Hope -- Vices and the self / Gabriele Taylor -- Wild beasts and idle humours: legal insanity and the finding of fault / Daniel N. Robinson -- Dangerousness and mental disorder / Nigel Walker -- Problems with the doctrine of consent / J.A. Devereux -- Homosexuality / Anthony Quinton -- Nietzsche and music / Anthony Storr |
| Summary |
"There can be no exploitative competitors in the practice of philosophy. In the primitive communist world of science and the arts, the achievement of each---whatever the accidental rewards of laurel wreathes and royalties---is essentially the enhancement of all. The same is true of that world's institutions, and explicitly of the aims of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, 'to promote the study and discussion of philosophy and original work in it'. It was in the furtherance of this aim that the Institute devoted its lecture series of 1983-4 to marking the advent of The Society for Applied Philosophy and of its then new journal; and that of 1993-4 to marking the advent of the new Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry, promoted by the Philosophy Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. This volume is based on the resulting lectures ... --Page v |
| Analysis |
Psychology Philosophy |
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Psychology Philosophy |
| Notes |
"Supplement to Philosophy"--Cover |
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"There can be no exploitative competitors in the practice of philosophy. In the primitive communist world of science and the arts, the achievement of each---whatever the accidental rewards of laurel wreathes and royalties---is essentially the enhancement of all. The same is true of that world's institutions, and explicitly of the aims of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, 'to promote the study and discussion of philosophy and original work in it'. It was in the furtherance of this aim that the Institue devoted its lecture series of 1983-4 to marking the advent of The Society for Applied Philosophy and of its then new journal; and that of 1993-4 to marking the advent of the new Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry, promoted by the Philosophy Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. This volume is based on the resulting lectures ... --Page v |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) |
| Notes |
Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement no:37 1358-2461 |
| Subject |
Psychiatric ethics.
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Psychiatry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
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Psychology and philosophy.
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Psychiatry.
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Philosophy.
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Psychology.
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| Author |
Griffiths, A. Phillips, editor
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Royal Institute of Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
94032747 |
| ISBN |
0521469023 |
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9780521469029 |
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