The Reading Group is jointly organised by the Valencia Philosophy Lab and the Logos Research Group in Analytic Philosophy in Barcelona. We meet fortnightly, during the second semester and in hybrid format, to discuss classical and recently published papers in the field of the Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry.

 

Here is the list of readings discussed this academic year (2024/25):

• Elliot, C. (2004). Mental Illness and its Limits. In The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion
• Werkhoven, S. (2021). Natural kinds of mental disorder. Synthese, 199, 10135-10165. 
• Haslam, Nick (2014). Natural Kinds in Psychiatry: Conceptually Implausible, Empirically Questionable, and Stigmatizing. In Harold Kincaid and Jacqueline Sullivan (Eds.). Classifying PsychopaIthology. Cambridge: The MIT Press. 
• Wakefield, J. C. (1992). “The Concept of Mental Disorder. On the Boundary Between Biological Facts and Social Values”, American Psychologist , Vol. 47, No. 3. 373-388.
• Gough, J. (2023). On the Proper Epistemology of the Mental for Psychiatry: What’s the Point of Understanding and Explaining? The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 74, 4, 975-998.
• Jeppsson, S. (2025). Allegedly impossible experiences. Philosophical Psychology, 38, 1, 77-99.
• Pantazakos, T., & Arnaud, S. (2024). Determining the scope of epistemic injustice within psychiatry. Philosophical Psychology, 1-26.
• Ballesteros, Virginia (2025). Objectivity, standardization, and epistemic injustice in psychiatry. Synthese 205 (4):1-23.
• Natalie Dorfman, Joel Michael Reynolds (2023). “The New Hysteria: Borderline Personality Disorder and Epistemic Injustice”, International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Vol. 16, No. 2 DOI: 10.3138/ijfab-2023-0008

The convenors are Marta Jorba (UPF) and Carlota Serrahima (UV).