Ontology of Psychology
Taylor & Francis
The Ontology of PsychologyQuestioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind\nAuthor(s): Linda A.W. Brakel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138209633, 978-1138209633\nSynopsis\nIn this volume, Brakel raises questions about conventions in the study of mind in three disciplinespsychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, and experimental philosophy. She illuminates new understandings of the mind through interdisciplinary challenges to views long-accepted. \n\nHere she proposes a view of psychoanalysis as a treatment that owes its successes largely to its biological naturebiological in its capacity to best approximate the extinction of problems arising owing to aversive conditioning. She also discusses whether or not \""the mental\"" can have any real ontological standing, arguing that a form of reductive physicalism can be sufficient ontologically, but that epistemological considerations require a branch of non-reductive phys.
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