Philosophy Part 6: Are mental disorders brain diseases ‘in waiting’?
In this blog I look at the argument that mental disorders are brain diseases just like multiple sclerosis or dementia
Philosophy Part 5: Why disease and illness are concepts of the body.
In this blog I want to come back to the work of Thomas Szasz. The last two blogs argue that bodily states and processes need to be understood in a different way from the way we understand what human beings think and do. Mental ‘illness’ consists of things that people say and do. For Szasz,…
Philosophy Part 4: Dualism and the mind-body ‘problem’
The human body is a material object that is part of the natural world. It is a uniquely personal part of the natural world, but it is a physical substance nonetheless. How it functions internally and how it responds to external phenomena are governed by the principles of living matter, which are the subject…
Joanna Moncrieff 