of Syllabus Instructor: Rush T. Stewart Meeting Time: Thursdays, 10:00-12:00 Location: Ludwigstr. 31, Room 021 Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:00-17:00 and by appointment, Room 131 Contact: [email protected] Description

This is a philosophy of course that takes psychiatry as a case study. By focusing on a particular science, we can ask precise versions of questions of interest in general : Does psychiatry reduce to neuroscience? Must psychiatric explanations be causal? Are there laws of psychiatry? But psychiatry also raises a host of interesting questions that are particular to the field : Should mental illnesses be conceived of and treated like other illnesses? What is a ? Are some disorders socially constructed? Are mathematical models useful for thinking about ? In this class, we read and discuss work in general philosophy of science, philosophy of psychiatry, and psychiatry proper in order to get a handle on such questions.

Readings

All articles and excerpts for the class will be made available on Coursesites. Any relevant handouts or other media will also be posted. On the schedule below, “SEP” refers to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Coursesites

To access reading materials and the current version of the syllabus, students must register for Philosophy of Psychiatry at Coursesites/Blackboard online. It is easiest to just email me to request a link.

Requirements

Presentations: 15% Final Paper: 85%

You should select a paper topic in consultation with me. Each week, email me a question or remark you have about the reading by noon on Wednesday. The presentation is intended to be an opportunity to get constructive feedback on a potential term paper topic. The length will depend on the number of people in the course. The final paper should be roughly 3,500–5,000 words.

Schedule

It is very likely that the schedule will be adjusted throughout the term. I will often try to indicate the readings you should primarily focus on for the week. There may be some room to tailor our schedule to the interests of the class. Updates will be posted to Coursesites. Date Topic Introduction 18. 10 SEP Entry on the Philosophy of Psychiatry, Introduction Cooper, ch. 1, Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science

Frameworks 25.10 The Antipsychiatrists DSM Entries: Schizophrenia (pp. 87–90, 99–105), Borderline Per- sonality Disorder (pp. 663–666) Szasz, “The Myth of Mental Illness” Cooper, ch. 2, “Is Mental Illness a Myth?”

01.11 No Class (Holiday)

08.11 The DSM and Its Critics DSM Entries: Paraphilia, Anti-Social Personality Disorder SEP Entry on the Philosophy of Psychiatry, § 2 Hacking, “Lost in the Forest” Bell, “Why We Need to Get Better at Critiquing Psychiatric Di- agnosis”

15.11 The Biomedical Model DSM Entry: Bipolar Disorder Engel, “The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine” Slater Star Codex, Should Psychiatry Test for Lead More? Fried, “All Mental Disorders Are Brain Disorders ... Not” Borsboom, “Psychometric Perspectives on Diagnostic Systems”

22.11 The Network Model Cramer et al., “Comorbidity: A Network Perspective” Borsboom et al. “The Small World of Psychopathology” Borsboom, “A Network Theory of Mental Disorders”

Values in Science 29.11 Health and Disease SEP Entry on Health Szasz, “ as Ideology”

06.12 DSM Entry: Depression Huys et al., “Psychiatry: Insights into Depression through Nor- mative Decision Making Models” Fletcher and Frith, “Perceiving Is Believing: A Bayesian Ap- proach to Explaining the Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia”

Measurement 13.12 Michell, “Quantitative Science and the Definition of Measurement in Psychology” Borsboom et al., “Kinds versus Continua”

20.12 No Class (Travelling) Explanation 10.01 SEP Entry on the Philosophy of Psychiatry §3 Cooper, ch. 4, Explanations in Psychiatry 1: Natural-History Based Explanations Cooper, ch. 5, Explanations in Psychiatry 2: Individual Case Histories

Natural Kinds and Social Construction 17.01 Hacking, The Social Construction of What? ch. 4: “Madness: Biological or Constructed?” Hacking, Mad Travelers excerpt van Os, “‘Schizophrenia’ Does Not Exist” Tabb, “Philosophy of Psychiatry after Diagnostic Kinds”

Reduction 24.01 Andersen, “Mechanisms and Reduction in Psychiatry” Cooper, ch. 7, Relations between Theories 2: Reductionisms Weiskopf, “An Ideal Disorder? Autism as a Psychiatric Kind”

31.01 Matteo Colombo (Guest Lecture) Colombo, “Deep and Beautiful. The Reward Prediction Error Hypothesis of Dopamine” Patzelt et al., “Computational Phenotyping: Using Models to Un- derstand Individual Differences in Personality, Development, and Mental Illness” Sebold et al., “When Habits Are Dangerous: Alcohol Expectan- cies and Habitual Decision Making Predict Relapse in Alcohol Dependence”

Presentations 07.02 On potential term paper topics