Addiction is Not a Natural Kind

I argue that addiction is not an appropriate category to support generalizations for the purposes of scientific prediction. That is, addiction is not a natural kind. I discuss the Homeostatic Property Cluster theory of kinds, according to which members of a kind share a cluster of properties generat...

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Main Author: Jeremy Michael Pober
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00123/full