
CFP Extended Deadline: «Synthese Topical Collection: The normativity of mental health conditions»
CALL FOR PAPERS Synthese Topical Collection: The normativity of mental health conditions Extended Deadline (February 15, 2024) Guest Editors: Víctor Fernández Castro, Universidad de Granada | FiloLab; Miguel Nuñez de Prado, Utrecht University Topical Collection Description: Determining whether we classify, diagnose, and treat different mental conditions as mental disorders by virtue of their pathological nature or simply because they are socially deviant has been a central issue in philosophy since the anti-psychiatry movement challenged the scientific status of psychiatry in the 1960s (Szasz 1961; Kendell 1975; Boorse 1976; Wakefield 1992; Fulford 1989). The stark opposition between those assuming that the concept of mental disorder is purely assimilable by biological descriptions and those who point out how it is permeated by social norms and values has long been superseded; nowadays, the…