Publications
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Works in Progress
"On the Curious Relationship between Against Method and Science in a Free Society"
"Integrated History and Philosophy of Psychiatry." In Yafeng Shan (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Integrated History and Philosophy of Science.
"Feyerabend’s Metaphysical Turn and the Stanford School of Pluralism" (with Jamie Shaw)
"Hacking on Looping Effects and Kinds of People." The Monist [Special Issue: The Philosophy of Ian Hacking].
"Conceptual Schemes and Conventionalism." In Stephanie Collins, Brian Epstein, Sally Haslanger, and Hans Bernhard Schmid (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology. Oxford University Press.
"Feyerabend's Realism and Expansion of Pluralism in the 1970s." In Jonathan Y. Tsou, Jamie Shaw, and Carla Fehr (eds.), Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Springer.
Tsou, Jonathan Y., Shaw, Jamie, and Fehr, Carla (eds.), Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Springer.
Forthcoming
"Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry." In Flavia Padovani and Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science. Routledge. (PDF)
"Philosophical Naturalism and Empirical Approaches to Philosophy." In Marcus Rossberg (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Analytic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (PDF)
2024
"The Ambiguous Legacy of Kuhn's Structure for Normative Philosophy of Science." In K. Brad Wray (ed.), Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60 (pp. 217-234). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (PDF)
2023
(2023), "The Contrast Class for Madness and Mental Disorder." Commentary on Justin Garson. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 30 (4): 323-325. (PDF)
Robson, Gregory J., and Tsou, Jonathan Y. (eds.), Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings. New York: Routledge. (PDF)
Tsou, Jonathan Y., and Padgett Walsh, Kate. "Ethical Theory and Technology." In Gregory J. Robson and Jonathan Y. Tsou (eds.), Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings (pp. 62-72). New York: Routledge. (PDF)
2022
"Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification." Philosophy of Science, 89 (5): 1155-1165. (PDF)
2021
"Function, Dysfunction, and the Concept of Mental Disorder." Commentary on Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 28 (4): 371-375. (PDF)
Philosophy of Psychiatry. Cambridge Elements in Philosophy of Science Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (PDF)
"The Social Construction of Human Categories." Review of Ásta, Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Metascience, 30 (1): 115-118. (PDF)
2020
"Social Construction, HPC Kinds, and the Projectability of Human Categories." Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 50 (2): 115-137. (PDF)
2019
"Philosophy of Science, Psychiatric Classification, and the DSM." In Şerife Tekin and Robyn Bluhm (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry (pp. 177-196). London: Bloomsbury. (PDF)
2017
"Pharmacological Interventions and the Neurobiological Basis of Mental Disorders." In Ioan Opris and Manuel F. Casanova (eds.), The Physics of the Mind and Brain Disorders: Integrated Neural Circuits Supporting the Emergence of Mind (pp. 613-628). Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems, vol. 11. Cham: Springer. (PDF)
"The Social Construction of Real Human Kinds." Review of Ron Mallon, The Construction of Human Kinds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Metascience, 26 (3): 467-470. (PDF)
2016
"Natural Kinds, Psychiatric Classification and the History of the DSM." History of Psychiatry, 27 (4): 406-424. (PDF)
2015
"Reconsidering the Carnap-Kuhn Connection." In William J. Devlin and Alisa Bokulich (eds.) (2015), Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On (pp. 51-69). Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 311. Cham: Springer. (PDF)
Padovani, Flavia, Richardson, Alan, and Tsou, Jonathan Y. (eds.) (2015). Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 310. Cham: Springer. (PDF)
Tsou, Jonathan Y., Richardson, Alan, and Padovani, Flavia (2015). "Introduction: Objectivity in Science." In Flavia Padovani, Alan Richardson, and Jonathan Y. Tsou (eds.), Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies (pp. 1-15). Cham: Springer. (PDF)
"DSM-5 and Psychiatry's Second Revolution: Descriptive vs. Theoretical Approaches to Psychiatric Classification." In Steeves Demazeux and Patrick Singy (eds.), The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel (pp. 43-62). Dordrecht: Springer. (PDF)
2013
"Depression and Suicide are Natural Kinds: Implications for Physician-Assisted Suicide." International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 36 (5-6): 461-470. [Special Issue: Suicide, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: Past, Present, and Future] (PDF)
"Origins of the Qualitative Aspects of Consciousness: Evolutionary Answers to Chalmers' Hard Problem." In Liz Swan (ed.), Origins of Mind (pp. 259-269). Dordrecht: Springer. (PDF)
2012
"Distinguishing Non-Conceptual Content from Non-Syntactic Propositions: Comment on Fuller." Southwest Philosophy Review, 28 (2): 53-57. (PDF)
"Intervention, Causal Reasoning, and the Neurobiology of Mental Disorders: Pharmacological Drugs as Experimental Instruments." Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 43 (2): 542-551. (PDF)
2011
"The Importance of History for Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Case of the DSM and Psychiatric Classification." Journal of the Philosophy of History, 5 (3): 446-470. [Special Issue: "What Does History Matter to . . .?"] (PDF)
2010
"Putnam's Account of Apriority and Scientific Change: Its Historical and Contemporary Interest." Synthese, 176 (3): 429-445. (PDF)
Review of Rachel Cooper, Classifying Madness: A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 61 (2): 453-457. (PDF)
2009
Review of Lennart Nordenfelt, Rationality and Compulsion: Applying Action Theory to Psychiatry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Journal of Applied Philosophy, 26 (4): 415-418. (PDF)
"Defining Mental Disorder." Review of Derek Bolton, What is Mental Disorder? An Essay in Philosophy, Science, and Values (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Metascience, 18 (2): 251-255. (PDF)
2008
Review of Dominic Murphy, Psychiatry in the Scientific Image (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006). Philosophical Psychology, 21 (1): 133-137. (PDF)
2007
"Hacking on the Looping Effects of Psychiatric Classifications: What Is an Interactive and Indifferent Kind?" International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 21 (3): 329-344. (PDF)
Review of George A. Reisch, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). British Journal for the History of Science, 40 (1): 153-155. (PDF)
Review of Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters (eds.), Science, Values, and Objectivity (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). Metaphilosophy, 38 (1): 127-133. (PDF)
2006
Review of Paolo Parrini, Wesley C. Salmon, and Merrilee H. Salmon (eds.), Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003). Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 45 (4): 808-810. (PDF)
"Genetic Epistemology and Piaget's Philosophy of Science: Piaget vs. Kuhn on Scientific Progress." Theory & Psychology, 16 (2): 203-224. (PDF)
2005
Review of Gary L. Hardcastle and Alan W. Richardson (eds.), Logical Empiricism in North America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). Philosophy of Science, 72 (4): 634-637. (PDF)
Review of Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler (eds.), History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002). British Journal for the History of Science, 38 (3): 355-356. (PDF)
Review of Steve Awodey and Carsten Klein (eds.), Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena (Chicago: Open Court, 2004). International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 19 (2): 213-216. (PDF)
2003
The Justification of Concepts in Carnap's Aufbau." Philosophy of Science, 70 (4): 671-689. (Winner of the 2003 PSA Graduate Student Essay Award) (PDF)
"A Role for Reason in Science." Critical Notice of Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason (Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2001). Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 42 (3): 573-598. (PDF)
"Reconsidering Feyerabend's 'Anarchism'." Perspectives on Science, 11 (2): 208-235. (PDF)
2001
Alexander, Bruce K., and Tsou, Jonathan Y. (2001). "Prospects for Stimulant Maintenance in Vancouver, Canada." Addiction Research & Theory, 9 (2): 97-132. (PDF)
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