HPS 0612 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Reductionism, Thomas R. Insel, Psychopathology
19 Dec 2018
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Week 14- the case of schizophrenia-thursday: presuppositions. Understanding of condition: causes-what makes it so, symptoms-how it manifests. Methodological strategy: reductive-focus on lower level (e. g. , genetic, cellular) processes, non-reductive-attend to higher level (e. g. , sociocultural, personal) processes. Methods of treatment: physical-tms, surgery, chemical-pharmacological interventions, personal-cognitive therapies, social-change person"s context. Note: the cause/symptom dichotomy doesn"t necessarily align with the reductive/non-reductive: symptoms can be lower level, causes can be societal. Note also: a commitment to methodological reduction does not entail a commitment to reductionism as a thesis about explanation (i. e. , the view that a neurobiological explanation is the only possible one) Is research of the kind presented in the first article compatible with research of the kind presented in the second: will one supplant another, what should go into answering these kinds of questions, schizophrenia. The phenomenology of the condition symptoms: two senses: What it is like" to have schizophrenia (i. e. , what someone who suffers from the condition experiences)
