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50 Years of ERIC
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Davis, Andrew – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2008
I use Ian Hacking's views to explore ways of classifying people, exploiting his distinction between indifferent kinds and interactive kinds, and his accounts of how we "make up" people. The natural kind/essentialist approach to indifferent kinds is explored in some depth. I relate this to debates in psychiatry about the existence of mental…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Definitions, Educational Philosophy