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Understanding understanding in psychiatry (2023)
Journal Article
Gough, J. (2023). Understanding understanding in psychiatry. History of Psychiatry, 34(3), 249-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154x231163275

Originally put forward to defend history from the encroachment of physics, the distinction between understanding and explanation was built into the foundations of Karl Jaspers’ ‘phenomenological’ psychiatry, and it is revised, used and defended by ma... Read More about Understanding understanding in psychiatry.

Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart (2022)
Journal Article
Gough, J. (2022). Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart. Biology and Philosophy, 38(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-022-09889-4

Among those living systems, which are cognizers? Among the behaviours of, and causes of behaviour in, living systems, which are cognitive? Such questions sit at the heart of a sophisticated, ongoing debate, of which the recent papers by Corcoran et a... Read More about Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart.