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  1. The reality of autism: On the metaphysics of disorder and diversity.Robert Chapman - 2020 - Philosophical Psychology 33 (6):799-819.
    Typically, although it’s notoriously hard to define, autism has been represented as a biologically-based mental disorder that can be usefully investigated by biomedical science. In recent years, ho...
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  • Additional Challenges to Fair Representation in Autistic Advocacy.Sam Fellowes - 2020 - American Journal of Bioethics 20 (4):44-45.
    Volume 20, Issue 4, May 2020, Page 44-45.
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  • Scientific Perspectivism and psychiatric diagnoses: respecting history and constraining relativism.Sam Fellowes - 2020 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (1):1-24.
    Historians and sociologists of psychiatry often claim that psychiatric diagnoses are discontinuous. That is, a particular diagnoses will be described in one way in one era and described quite differently in a different era. Historians and sociologists often draw epistemic consequences from such discontinuities, claiming that truth is pluralistic, provisional and historicised. These arguments do not readily fit in with how analytical philosophers of science approach scientific realism. I show how the pessimistic meta induction does not capture the point which (...)
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  • A history of childhood schizophrenia and lessons for autism.Sam Fellowes - 2024 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 46 (3):1-23.
    The diagnosis of childhood schizophrenia was widely employed in the U.S. from the 1930s to the late 1970s. In this paper I will provide a history of the diagnosis. Some of the earliest publications on childhood schizophrenia outlined the notion that childhood schizophrenia had different types. I will outline the development of these types, outlining differing symptoms and causes associated with various types. I outline how different types of childhood schizophrenia were demarcated from one another primarily on age of onset (...)
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