Two Concepts of the Mental

摘要: My aim in this chapter is to bring the fore some distinctive aspects of what could be termed a “social-constructionist” characterization nature mental. There are various forms social constructionism around these days, as glance at contents volume will clearly reveal, but most them share central intellectual interest: description ways which cultural-conceptual schemes deployed constitution phenomena and conceptualization socially organized accredited (or discredited). In many senses, useful principle for social-constructionist analysis use Wittgenstein’s dictum research-guiding insight: “Knowledge end based on acknowledgement” (Wittgenstein, 1969, sec. 378). Here, one may now add: so also (successful) predication wide array “cognitive” “experiential” predicates contingent upon explicit or implicit acknowledgement. The existence categories “insanity,” “mental illness,” “psychosis,” “hallucination,” “delusion,” “illusion,” “irrationality,” “madness” attest power, actual use, appeal intersubjective conventions constraints ratification ascription such by self other.