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26On the Concept of "Psychiatric Disorder": Incorporating Psychological InjuryPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 28 (4): 329-339. 2021.ARRAY
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24Making Medical KnowledgeOxford University Press. 2015.How is medical knowledge made? There have been radical changes in recent decades, through new methods such as consensus conferences, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, and narrative medicine. Miriam Solomon explores their origins, aims, and epistemic strengths and weaknesses; and she offers a pluralistic approach for the future
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19Who Owns the Concept of Psychiatric Disorder?Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 28 (4): 349-351. 2021.About ten years ago, I participated in a consensus process on migraine nomenclature. Participants used a modified Delphi technique to explore their views about what migraine is. Candidate concepts included an illness, disease, syndrome, condition, disorder, or susceptibility. Initially, there was a wide range of views about which concept best fits our concept of migraine. Migraine—in common with many psychiatric disorders—is poorly understood by neuroscience. On scientific grounds, participants …Read more
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17Taking the High Road: Comments on Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on ScienceInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15 (2): 100-107. 2022.This is an excellent book. It is written at the intersection of philosophy of medicine, social epistemology, science and technology studies, and public policy. It conceptualizes the phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy as an understandable attitude that, when sizeable enough, causes vaccine refusal. Its focus is on pre-COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and primarily on parental decisions about childhood vaccinations. Its publication, one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, comes at a fortuitous time because it…Read more
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16Naturalism and generalityPhilosophical Psychology 8 (4). 1995.Naturalistic epistemologists frequently assume that their aim is to identify generalities (i.e. general laws) about the effectiveness of particular reasoning processes and methods. This paper argues that the search for this kind of generality fails. Work that has been done thus far to identify generalities (e.g. by Goldman, Kitcher and Thagard) overlooks both the complexity of reasoning and the relativity of assessments to particular contexts (domain, stage and goal of inquiry). Examples of huma…Read more
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13On Validators for Psychiatric CategoriesPhilosophy of Medicine 3 (1). 2022.The concept of a “validator” as a unit of evidence for the validity of a psychiatric category has been important for more than fifty years. Validator evidence is aggregated by expert committees (for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), these are referred to as “workgroups”), which use the results to make nosological decisions. Through an examination of the recent history of psychiatric research, this paper argues that it is time to reassess this traditional practice. …Read more
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12Book ForumStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 81 101271. 2020.
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9The pragmatic turn in naturalist philosophy of sciencePerspectives on Science 3 (2): 206-230. 1995.Creative approaches in recent work in science studies can be usefully connected with ideas from the pragmatic tradition. This article both criticizes and builds on the contemporary pragmatic views of Hacking, Stich, and others. It selects a theme from the work of James and Dewey as a heuristic for a new, and necessary, pragmatic epistemology of science.
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8Information and the ethics of information control in sciencePerspectives on Science 4 (2): 195-206. 1996.This article examines some current U.S. policies regarding the ethics of information control in scientific research, such as the requirements for “timely” publication and information sufficient for replication. The appropriateness of these policies is called into question by recent work in science studies, which suggest the importance of informal and nonlinguistic channels of information and the impossibility of exact replication of experiments. Policy change is recommended, but it needs to take…Read more
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8Frank Sulloway's Born to RebelPhilosophy of Science 65 (1): 171. 1998.Born to Rebel is an innovative and important work with much to say to philosophers of science, as well as historians and sociologists of science. Sulloway uses, successfully, quantitative statistical methods that others have despaired of using to analyze the complexities of historical change. In particular, he investigates scientific decision-making during scientific controversies with a multivariate analysis. The goal is to discern, precisely, the contribution of factors such as religious belie…Read more
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2Group Judgment and the Medical Consensus ConferenceIn Fred Gifford (ed.), Philosophy of Medicine, Elsevier. 2011.
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1“A Troubled Area”. Understanding the Controversy over Screening Mammography for Women Aged 40-49In Christoph Jäger & Winfried Löffler (eds.), Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement. Papers of the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2011, The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. pp. 271-284. 2007.
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Expert consensusIn Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon & Harold Kincaid (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, Routledge. 2016.
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Social epistemology in practiceIn Nancy Cartwright & Eleonora Montuschi (eds.), Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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CSW Jobs for Philosophers Employment StudyApa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 8 (2): 3-6. 2009.
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