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Philosophy of Psychiatry

PhPs   |   2025 / 2026

Convenor

LOGOS-València Reading Group in Philosophy of Psychiatry

Dates: February 4, February 18, March 4, March 25, April 8, April 22, May 6, May 20, June 3.
Time: 12h-13,30h.
Place: room 24.015, Mercè Rodoreda building, UPF and online.

Provisional list of readings

  • Tsou, Jonathan Y (2019). “Philosophy of Science, Psychiatric Classification, and the DSM”, in Şerife Tekin and Robyn Bluhm (Eds.). The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry
  • Russell, J.L. (2025). Prescriptive ‘selves’ and self-illness ambiguity. Synthese 206, 64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-05147-8ç
  • Harper, D. J., & Vakili, K. (2022). Mental health prejudice, discrimination and epistemic injustice: Moving beyond stigma and biomedical dominance. In C. Tileagă, M. Augoustinos, & K. Durrheim (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of discrimination, prejudice and stereotyping (pp. 26–41)
  • Merri Lisa Johnson (2021): “Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder” Signs 46/3
  • Garson, J. (2023). Madness and Idiocy: Reframing a Basic Problem of Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 30, 4, 289-295
  • Maiese, M. (2024). Problems for enactive psychiatry? Mindshaping, social normativity, and neurodiversity. Philosophical Psychology, 1–26
  • Fellowes S (2021). How autism shows that symptoms, like psychiatric diagnoses, are ‘constructed’: methodological and epistemic consequences. Synthese 199(1-2):4499-4522
  • Vazard, J. (2019). (Un)reasonable doubt as affective experience: obsessive-compulsive disorder, epistemic anxiety and the feeling of uncertainty. Synthese
  • Lavallee, Zoe &  Gagné-Julien, Anne-Marie, (2024). “Affective injustice, sanism and psychiatry”, Synthese 204:94 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04731-8
  • Jeppsson, S. (2023). Radical psychotic doubt and epistemology. Philosophical Psychology, 8, 1482-150
  • Wannberg, R. (2023). Institution or Individuality? Some Reflections on the Lessons To Be Learned From Personal Accounts of Recovery From Schizophrenia, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 31, 1, 55-66
  • Catala, Amandine (2024). “Epistemic injustice and epistemic authority on autism”, in The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability