Mental disorders as failures of attention

• Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ^[1] ; Laura K. Soter ^[1] ; Jesse S. Summers ^[1]
  1. [1] Duke University

     Duke University

     Township of Durham, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Crítica: revista hispanoamericana de filosofía, ISSN 0011-1503, Vol. 56, Nº. 167, 2024, págs. 17-44
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2024.1528
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  • español

    El DSM–5 caracteriza los trastornos mentales como alteraciones signi-ficativas de la cognición, la emoción o el comportamiento. ¿Qué podría unir a lasalteraciones en esta lista? Según nuestra hipótesis, los trastornos mentales pueden ca-racterizarse como fallos de la atención [failures of attention]. Los entendemos comofallos al distribuir la atención según las razones que uno tenga, y hablamos tantode fallos de tendencia como de fallos de habilidad. Discutimos seis ejemplos detrastornos mentales y ofrecemos una glosa preliminar para la reformulación de cadauno en términos que involucran centralmente fallos de la atención. Concluimossubrayando algunas consecuencias teóricas y prácticas de nuestra propuesta.

  • English

    The DSM–5 characterizes mental disorders as significant disturbances in cognition, emotion, or behavior. But what might unite the disturbances on this list? We hypothesize that mental disorders can all be meaningfully characterized as failures of attention. We understand these as failures to distribute attention in the way one has most reason to, and we include both failures of tendency and of ability. We discuss six examples of mental disorders and offer a preliminary gloss of how to recast each as centrally involving a failure of attention. We close by highlighting theoretical and practical upshots of our proposal.

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