Dr Sam Fellowes

Associate Lecturer

Research Overview

Philosophy of Psychiatry

-What are psychiatric diagnoses (ontology)

-Should we believe in psychiatric diagnoses (epistemology)

-Portraying psychiatric diagnoses as scientific models

-Categorical vs dimensional psychiatric diagnoses

-Values and psychiatric diagnoses

-Kantian Philosophy of Science

History of Autism

-Historical evolution of notions of autism

-Alternative notions such as childhood schizophrenia

-Psychoanalytical notions of autism