Robin Gordon Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 5212266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Gordon Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Psychic Determinism
A confusion persists in the psychoanalytic literature regarding the concept of psychic determinism. Two authors are cited in whose works the concept is identified as foundational to psychoanalysis, in the one case as a “fundamental hypothesis” (Charles Brenner) and in the other as an “underlying presupposition” or assumption (Linda A.W. Brakel). Both claims are based on a conflation of the concept Freud had in mind with a philosophical doctrine g…
Dominic MURPHY Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
Physicalism, Supervenience and the Fundamental Level
We provide a formulation of physicalism, and show that this is to be favoured over alternative formulations. Much of the literature on physicalism assumes without argument that there is a fundamental level to reality, and we show that a consideration of the levels problem and its implications for physicalism tells in favour of the form of physicalism proposed here. Its key elements are, first, that the empirical and substantive part of physicalis…
Physicalism, Supervenience and the Fundamental Level
We provide a formulation of physicalism, and show that this is to be favoured over alternative formulations. Much of the literature on physicalism assumes without argument that there is a fundamental level to reality, and we show that a consideration of the levels problem and its implications for physicalism tells in favour of the form of physicalism proposed here. Its key elements are, first, that the empirical and substantive part of physicalis…
Dominic MURPHY Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
Physicalism, Supervenience and the Fundamental Level
We provide a formulation of physicalism, and show that this is to be favoured over alternative formulations. Much of the literature on physicalism assumes without argument that there is a fundamental level to reality, and we show that a consideration of the levels problem and its implications for physicalism tells in favour of the form of physicalism proposed here. Its key elements are, first, that the empirical and substantive part of physicalis…
On Psychic Determinism
A confusion persists in the psychoanalytic literature regarding the concept of psychic determinism. Two authors are cited in whose works the concept is identified as foundational to psychoanalysis, in the one case as a “fundamental hypothesis” (Charles Brenner) and in the other as an “underlying presupposition” or assumption (Linda A.W. Brakel). Both claims are based on a conflation of the concept Freud had in mind with a philosophical doctrine g…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Chemistry (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Confusion (1 work) · Determinism (1 work) · Doctrine (1 work)