Kinds of Kinds: A Conceptual Taxonomy of Psychiatric Categories

作者: Nick Haslam

DOI: 10.1353/PPP.2003.0043

关键词: PsychiatryPsychodiagnostic TypologiesPragmatismEssentialismVariety (linguistics)PsychologyNatural (music)Taxonomy (general)

摘要: A pluralistic view of psychiatric classification is defended, according to which categories take a variety structural forms. An ordered taxonomy these forms—non-kinds, practical kinds, fuzzy kinds, discrete and natural kinds—is presented and exemplified. It argued that cannot all be understood as pragmatically grounded, at least some reflect naturally occurring discontinuities without thereby representing natural kinds. Even if essentialist accounts mental disorders are generally mistaken, they not implied whenever category is not grounded posited.

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