تصورات النوع الطبيعي داخل الطب النفسي

Abstract EN

One of the fundamental topics in the philosophy of science is the study of natural kinds.

Philosophers of science have been interested in the classification systems of natural kinds, which can be used to explain and predict the behavior of the classified entities.

Philosophers of psychiatry have adopted a number of different perspectives when it comes to answer the question: Are the classificatory categories of psychiatry natural kinds? Those perspectives includes the essentialist perspective of Jerome Wakefield, two non-essentialist perspectives of Richard Boyd and Rachel Cooper, the practical kinds perspective of Peter Zachar, the pluralistic perspective of Nick Haslam and the para-natural perspective of Roy Sorensen.

Through a comparative critical analysis, in addition to analyzing and criticizing such perspectives, the present study has figured and formulated the dilemma of each account.