Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language....Pages 11-28
The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language....Pages 29-50
The Pragmatics of Medical Language....Pages 51-56
Varieties of Medical Concepts....Pages 57-80
Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation....Pages 81-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
The Patient....Pages 109-272
The Physician....Pages 273-274
Clinical Practice....Pages 275-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
The Architecture of Medical Knowledge....Pages 383-442
Types of Medical Knowledge....Pages 443-458
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Medical Knowledge....Pages 459-530
Technoconstructivism....Pages 531-551
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
Morality, Ethics, and Deontics....Pages 555-565
Disease as a Deontic Construct....Pages 567-575
Medicine is a Deontic Discipline....Pages 577-583
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
Logic in Medicine....Pages 587-673
The Logic of Medicine....Pages 675-681
Front Matter....Pages 683-683
On What There Are....Pages 685-710
Medical Ontology....Pages 711-756
On Medical Truth....Pages 757-762
Front Matter....Pages 683-683
On the Nature of Medicine....Pages 763-786
Front Matter....Pages 787-787
Science, Medicine, and Rationality....Pages 789-806
Perspectivism....Pages 807-814
The Doubter....Pages 815-817
Front Matter....Pages 819-819
Classical Sets....Pages 821-844
Classical Logic....Pages 845-906
Modal Extensions of Classical Logic....Pages 907-958
Non-Classical Logics....Pages 959-968
Probability Logic....Pages 969-992
Fuzzy Logic....Pages 993-1041
Back Matter....Pages 1043-1133