Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Philosophical Psychology
For a Special Issue on
Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry
Manuscript deadline
Special Issue Editor(s)
Şerife Tekin,
SUNY Upstate Medical University, US
TekinS@upstate.edu
Jonathan Y. Tsou,
University of Texas, Dallas, US
jonathan.tsou@utdallas.edu
Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry
This special issue aims to 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
Submission Instructions
Contributors are invited to submit papers that examine how Hacking’s historical and pragmatic approach has reshaped philosophical and empirical inquiry into mental disorders, emphasizing the social, epistemic, and ontological dynamics of diagnosis, personhood, and institutional power.
- Papers should be 5000-6000 word long (excluding bibliography).
- When submitting your paper, please select "Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry" as the title of the special issue in the drop-down menu.
- It is our policy that only papers that have been through peer review and have attracted two positive reports from independent reviewers are accepted for publication.
- Papers will be published online as they become available but they will only be assigned to an issue when all papers in the special issue will have completed production.