[SydPhil] University of Wollongong Agora Seminar Series: Professor Dominic Murphy (USYD)

[Elena Walsh]

Dear all,



The next seminar in this semester's Agora series will be:


*Professor Dominic Murphy* *(The* *University of Sydney)*

*Nature and Social Construction in Psychiatry*

Thursday, May 22, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Building 20, Room 4



*Abstract:*

In this talk I will try to show why it looks plausible that the dominant
model of mental disorder is neglectful of the sociocultural, but also
suggest that there are ways of understanding the medical model and ways of
understanding social causes of mental illness that can work together. I
will distinguish between social construction, social causation and social
meaning, suggest that these are often run together in the literature, and
argue that they have different implications for psychiatry. In particular,
we should be sensitive to the fact that social constructionist accounts
often take their psychology off the shelf, and cannot assume neurotypical
psychology without begging the question.



*Bio:*

Dominic Murphy is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the
University of Sydney. He is the author of *Psychiatry in the Scientific
Image* (MIT Press, 2006). Before that he taught at Caltech and was
previously a fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at
Washington University, St Louis.



This is an in-person event and there is no need to register. All welcome.



--

*Dr. Elena Walsh*

Lecturer

School of Liberal Arts

Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | 94.19

University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia

*T *+61 2 4220 5692

*W *elenawalsh.squarespace.com





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