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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Psychiatry's Implicit Adaptationism Monday, April 8, 2019 The concept of dysfunction plays a central role in psychiatry, and particularly in analyses of psychiatric disorder. Psychiatric disorders are defined in the DSM-5, in part, as syndromes characterized by clinically significant symptoms that reflect “a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning.” Curiously absent from psychiatric manuals is an account of what constitutes function and dysfunction. I investigate whether philosophical accounts of function and dysfunction can do the work that psychiatry implicitly demands. I argue that one popular account cannot, and that it imports into psychiatry a problematic strain of adaptationism, which falls well short of the requisite standards of evidence in evolutionary biology. Time: 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EDT/GMT-4 Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102 Sponsor: Philosophy Program Contact: Jay Elliott. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7280 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/academics/programs/physics/events/