Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 50)

Dordrecht, Holland / Boston, U.S.A.: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1976. NOT a library discard. This is the SCARCE original 1976 D. Reidel Publishing Company edition -- NOT the Springer or Kluwer Academic reprint. Very Good condition. Mild crease to lower corner at the front. Flat uncreased spine. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Volume 102 in the SYNTHESE LIBRARY series. Long list of chapter notes. Annotated bibliography. Index. Bound in the original gray and white wraps, lettered in black. From the Editorial Preface: "There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last decades, posed the problem of distinguishing science proper from non-science - in particular, from metaphysics, from pseudo-science, from the non rational or irrational, or from the untestable or the empirically meaningless. In psychiatric theory, the demarcation question appears as a problem of distinguishing the sane from the insane, the well from the mentally ill. The parallelism is interesting when the criteria for what fails to be scientific are seen to be congruent with the criteria which define those psychoses which are marked by cognitive failure. In this book Dr Yehuda Fried and Professor Joseph Agassi - a practicing psychiatrist and a philosopher of science, respectivel- focus on an extreme case of psychosis - paranoia - as an essentially intellectual disorder: that is, as one in which there is a systematic and chronic delusion which is sustained by logical means. They write: 'Paranoia is an extreme case by the very fact that paranoia is by definition a quirk of the intellectual apparatus, a logical delusion.'.". First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xv, 218pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…