What can philosophy offer psychiatry? What can psychiatry offer philosophy? Simply, there is nothing as harmful as a bad theory put into practice and conversely the constraints of practice and the recalcitrance of the realities of anomalous experiences offer instructive challenges to theory. We know well that the history of medicine and psychiatry have many examples of bad theory having been put into practice often with tragic consequences. Equally the extremes of armchair philosophy and far-fetched thought experiments, while keeping some philosophers busy chasing zombies or possible worlds in which minds can be uploaded into a computer hard-drives, leave philosophy open to accusations of irrelevance and obfuscation.
History
Publication title
Metapsychology Online Reviews
Volume
20
Issue
36
Pagination
1-8
ISSN
1931-5716
Department/School
School of Humanities
Publisher
Mental Help Net
Place of publication
United States
Repository Status
Restricted
Socio-economic Objectives
Expanding knowledge in the biomedical and clinical sciences; Expanding knowledge in psychology