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Professor Rachel Cooper

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  1. Published

    Why is the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders so hard to revise? path-dependence and “lock-in” in classification

    Cooper, R., 06/2015, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 51, p. 1-10 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Why Hacking is wrong about human kinds.

    Cooper, R. V., 03/2004, In: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 55, 1, p. 73-85 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Where’s the problem? considering Laing and Esterson’s account of schizophrenia, social models of disability, and extended mental disorder

    Cooper, R. V., 08/2017, In: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 38, 4, p. 295-305 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    When answers are hard to find, change the question: Asking different causal questions can enable progress

    Cooper, R., 21/10/2020, Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial psychiatry in modern medicine. Davies, W., Savulescu, J., Roache, R. & Loebel, J. P. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  5. Published

    What’s special about mental health and disorder?

    Cooper, R., 2013, Arguing about human nature: contemporary debates. Downes, S. & Machery, E. (eds.). New York: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  6. Published

    What value a unicorn's horn? a study of archaeological uniqueness and value

    Coningham, R., Cooper, R. & Pollard, M., 2006, The ethics of archaeology. Scarre, C. & Scarre, G. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 260-272 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  7. Published

    What is wrong with the DSM?

    Cooper, R. V., 2004, In: History of Psychiatry. 15, 1, p. 5-25 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Understanding the DSM-5: stasis and change

    Cooper, R. V., 1/03/2018, In: History of Psychiatry. 29, 1, p. 49-65 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Thought experiments

    Cooper, R. V., 04/2005, In: Metaphilosophy. 36, 3, p. 328-347 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    The Myth of Hempel and the DSM-III

    Cooper, R. V. & Blashfield, R., 08/2018, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 70, p. 10-19 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    The concept of disorder revisited: Robustly value-laden despite change

    Cooper, R., 1/07/2020, In: Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 94, 1, p. 141-161 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  12. Published

    Some classifications will be natural: forum on philosophy of classification

    Cooper, R., 2011, In: Knowledge Organization. 38, 5, p. 398-404 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  13. Published

    Socratic questioning in alien landscapes?

    Cooper, R. V., 11/2017, In: Journal of Applied Philosophy. 34, 5, p. 724-729 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Shifting boundaries between the normal and the pathological: the case of mild intellectual disability

    Cooper, R., 06/2014, In: History of Psychiatry. 25, 2, p. 171-186 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Review of A Metaphysics of Psychopathology. By P.Zachar

    Cooper, R. V., 10/2014, In: Psychological Medicine. 44, 14, p. 3135-3135 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article review

  16. Published

    Re-evaluating the DSM-I

    Cooper, R. & Blashfield, R., 02/2016, In: Psychological Medicine. 46, 3, p. 449-456 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Reasons to Expect Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) to Vary Across Cultures

    Cooper, R., 15/12/2021, Psychopathy: Its Uses, Validity and Status. Malatesti, L., McMillan, J. & Šustar, P. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 253-268 16 p. (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences ; vol. 27).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  18. Published

    Psychiatry as a value-laden science.

    Cooper, R. V., 11/2007, Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science. London: Acumen, 240 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  19. Published

    Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science.

    Cooper, R. V., 2007, Acumen. 192 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  20. Forthcoming

    Psychiatric kinds and the DSM: Notes from a conceptual building site

    Cooper, R., 6/10/2023, (Accepted/In press) New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering : Foundational Issues. Isaac, M. G. & Scharp, K. (eds.). Springer

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  21. Published

    Psychiatric classification and subjective experience

    Cooper, R., 04/2012, In: Emotion Review. 4, 2, p. 197-202 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    On Harm

    Cooper, R., 1/02/2021, Defining Mental Disorder: Jerome Wakefield and his Critics. Faucher, L. & Forest, D. (eds.). MIT Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  23. Published

    On deciding to have a lobotomy: either lobotomies were justified or decisions under risk should not always seek to maximise expected utility

    Cooper, R., 02/2014, In: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 17, 1, p. 143-154 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Natural kinds

    Cooper, R., 2013, The Oxford handbook of philosophy and psychiatry. Fulford, K., Davies, M., Graham, G., Sadler, J., Stanghellini, G. & Thornton, T. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  25. Published

    Must disorders cause harm? the changing stance of the DSM

    Cooper, R. V., 2015, The DSM-5 in perspective: philosophical reflections on the psychiatric babel. Demazeux, S. & Singy, P. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer, p. 83-96 14 p. (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences; vol. 10).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

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