The Concept of Disorder Revisited: Robustly Value-Laden Despite Change

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Our concept of disorder is changing. This causes problems for projects of descriptive conceptual analysis. Conceptual change means that a criterion that was necessary for a condition to be a disorder at one time may cease to be necessary a relatively short time later. Nevertheless, some conceptually based claims will be fairly robust. In particular, the claim that no adequate account of disorder can appeal only to biological facts can be maintained for the foreseeable future. This is because our current concept of disorder continues to be laden with ethical and political values in multiple ways.

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Title: Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

ISSN (Print): 0309-7013

ISSN (Electronic): 1467-8349

Publication date Created: July 2020

Publication date Created: July 01 2020

Publication date Other: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 01 2020

Publication date (Electronic): July 01 2020

Volume: 94

Issue: 1

Pages: 141-161

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DOI: 10.1093/arisup/akaa010

SO-VID: 471b03f6-0a41-416e-8b53-2e3abf0becd0

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