CFP: CFP: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry (Philosophical Psychology)

This special issue aims is guest edited by Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Tsou. It will explore the enduring influence of Ian Hacking’s philosophy on contemporary debates in the philosophy of psychiatry.

Hacking’s groundbreaking work on styles of reasoning, making up people, and the looping effects of human kinds has provided conceptual tools for understanding how psychiatric classifications shape, and are shaped by, the people they aim to describe.

Appropriate topics for submission include, among others:

• Looping Effects and the Dynamics of Psychiatric Classification
• Making Up People in Contemporary Psychiatry
• Historical Ontology and the Emergence of Mental Disorders
• Styles of Reasoning in Psychiatry
• Hacking and Neurodiversity
• Artificial Intelligence and the New Looping Effects
• Global Mental Health and Local Ontologies
• Hacking and Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry