Sander Werkhoven
Biographic Data
| ID | 5236932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sander Werkhoven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sander |
| FAMILY NAME | Werkhoven |
| SIGNATURE | WERKHOVEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2108-5512 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Natural kinds of mental disorder
Are mental disorders (autism, ADHD, schizophrenia) natural kinds or socially constructed categories? What is at stake if either of these views prove to be true? This paper offers a qualified defence for the view that there may be natural kinds of mental disorder, but also that the implications of this claim are generally overestimated. Especially concerns about over-inclusiveness of diagnostic categories and medicalisation of abnormal behaviour a…
A Dispositional Theory of Health
A satisfactory account of the nature of health is important for a wide range of theoretical and practical reasons. No theory offered in the literature thus far has been able to meet all the desiderata for an adequate theory of health. This article introduces a new theory of health, according to which health is best defined in terms of dispositions at the level of the organism as a whole. After outlining the main features of the account and provid…
Ethics and Self-Cultivation
Nietzsche's Therapeutic Teaching
Nietzsche's Therapeutic Teaching: For Individuals and Culture is a collection of sixteen essays that takes the therapeutic objectives of Nietzsche's writings as its central theme. It situates Nietzsche's work in the Greco-Roman tradition in which philosophical methods and doctrines were considered to be “medicine for the soul,” capable of curing us from the afflictions of irrational desires, disordered psyches, or poorly cultivated characters. It…
Natural kinds of mental disorder
Are mental disorders (autism, ADHD, schizophrenia) natural kinds or socially constructed categories? What is at stake if either of these views prove to be true? This paper offers a qualified defence for the view that there may be natural kinds of mental disorder, but also that the implications of this claim are generally overestimated. Especially concerns about over-inclusiveness of diagnostic categories and medicalisation of abnormal behaviour a…
Nietzsche's Therapeutic Teaching
Nietzsche's Therapeutic Teaching: For Individuals and Culture is a collection of sixteen essays that takes the therapeutic objectives of Nietzsche's writings as its central theme. It situates Nietzsche's work in the Greco-Roman tradition in which philosophical methods and doctrines were considered to be “medicine for the soul,” capable of curing us from the afflictions of irrational desires, disordered psyches, or poorly cultivated characters. It…
Ethics and Self-Cultivation
A Dispositional Theory of Health
A satisfactory account of the nature of health is important for a wide range of theoretical and practical reasons. No theory offered in the literature thus far has been able to meet all the desiderata for an adequate theory of health. This article introduces a new theory of health, according to which health is best defined in terms of dispositions at the level of the organism as a whole. After outlining the main features of the account and provid…
Natural kinds of mental disorder
Are mental disorders (autism, ADHD, schizophrenia) natural kinds or socially constructed categories? What is at stake if either of these views prove to be true? This paper offers a qualified defence for the view that there may be natural kinds of mental disorder, but also that the implications of this claim are generally overestimated. Especially concerns about over-inclusiveness of diagnostic categories and medicalisation of abnormal behaviour a…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works) · Adult and Continuing Education Topics (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Asceticism (1 work) · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)