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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “somogy varga”
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  • Health and Disease

    Experimental Philosophy of Medicine

    by Somogy Varga, Andrew James Latham, Edouard Machery ...
    Series series Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
    The concepts of health and disease are fundamental to medical research, healthcare, and public health, and philosophers have long sought to clarify their meaning and implications. Increasingly, it is suggested that progress in this area could be advanced by integrating empirical methods with philosophical reflection. This Element explores the emerging field of experimental philosophy of medicine ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry

    A Philosophical Analysis

    by Somogy Varga ...
    After its unparalleled rise and expansion over the past century, medicine is increasingly criticized both as a science and clinical practice for lacking scientific rigor, for contributing to overmedicalization, and for failing to offer patient-centered care. This criticism highlights serious challenges which indicate that the scope and societal role of medicine are likely to be altered in the 21st ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

    by Somogy Varga ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that the ideal of authenticity has increasingly turned into a kind of aestheticism and egoistic self ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Naturalism, interpretation, and mental disorder

    by Somogy Varga ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    The Philosophy of Psychiatry is a unique area of research because the nature of the subject matter leads to quite distinct methodological issues. Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder is an original new work focusing on the challenges we face when trying to interpret and understand mental illness. The book integrates a hermeneutical perspective, and shows how such an approach can reveal ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Scaffolded Minds

    Integration and Disintegration

    by Somogy Varga ...
    Series series Philosophical Psychopathology
    A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders.In Scaffolded Minds, Somogy Varga offers a novel account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders. The book is part of the growing philosophical engagement with empirically informed philosophy of mind, which studies the interfaces between philosophy and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Dimensions of Practical Necessity

    “Here I Stand. I Can Do No Other."

    Edited by Katharina Bauer, Somogy Varga, Corinna Mieth ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This collection of essays provides the first systematic investigation of practical necessity and offers novel perspectives on this intriguing phenomenon. While debates on necessity often take place in the realm of metaphysics, there is a form of necessity that is pertinent to practical philosophy. “Here I stand. I can do no other,” a phrase habitually attributed to Martin Luther, is often ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

    Edited by KWM Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, Tim Thornton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neurosciences. However, too few practising psychiatrists are familiar with the literature in this area. The ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

    The Birth of Postpsychiatry

    by Bradley Lewis ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry."--Christian Perring, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Mind in Context

    Edited by Batja Mesquita, PhD, Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, Eliot R. Smith, PhD ...
    Most psychology research still assumes that mental processes are internal to the person, waiting to be expressed or activated. This compelling book illustrates that a new paradigm is forming in which contextual factors are considered central to the workings of the mind. Leading experts explore how psychological processes emerge from the transactions of individuals with their physical, social, and ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Persons and their Minds

    Towards an Integrative Theory of the Mediated Mind

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    Series series Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation
    Today’s approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the cultural and discursive approaches, with their frequent neglect of the material sides of human life. Persons and their Minds seeks to develop an integrative theory of the mind ... Read more

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  • Studying Human Behavior

    How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality

    by Helen E. Longino ...
    "[An] important contribution to the philosophy of the science(s) of human behavior. . . . a must read for philosophers of science and behavioral scientists." — ChoiceIn Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of "nature versus nurture." Rather than supporting one side or another or ... Read more

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  • Causality

    Philosophical Theory meets Scientific Practice

    by Phyllis Illari, Federica Russo ...
    Head hits cause brain damage - but not always. Should we ban sport to protect athletes? Exposure to electromagnetic fields is strongly associated with cancer development - does that mean exposure causes cancer? Should we encourage old fashioned communication instead of mobile phones to reduce cancer rates? According to popular wisdom, the Mediterranean diet keeps you healthy. Is this belief ... Read more

    $48.59 USD