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(2018) Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history, Dordrecht, Springer.

Reasons and causes in psychiatry

ideas from Donald Davidson's work

Elisabetta Lalumera

pp. 281-296

Though the divide between reason-based and causal-explanatory approaches in psychiatry and psychopathology is old and deeply rooted, current trends involving multi-factorial explanatory models and evidence-based approaches to interpersonal psychotherapy, show that it has already been implicitly bridged. These trends require a philosophical reconsideration of how reasons can be causes. This paper contributes to that trajectory by arguing that Donald Davidson's classic paradigm of 1963 is still a valid option.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95777-7_13

Full citation:

Lalumera, E. (2018)., Reasons and causes in psychiatry: ideas from Donald Davidson's work, in A. Coliva, P. Leonardi & S. Moruzzi (eds.), Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 281-296.

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