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Addiction is Not a Natural Kind
I argue that addiction is not an appropriate category to support generalizations for the purposes of scientific prediction. That is, addiction is not a natural kind. I discuss the Homeostatic Property Cluster (HPC) theory of kinds, according to which members of a kind share a cluster of properties g...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3790138/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24109458 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00123 |