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1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Dan Stein |SAMRC Unit |Randolph Nesse

1 Introduction The notions of function and dysfunction are fundamental for neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry. However, they spur continuing controversy, with ongoing debate about how best to conceptualize and operationalize function and dysfunction, including a large body of work in philosophy of biology, medicine and psychiatry (Allen et al. 1998; Schwartz 2007; Griffiths and Matthewson 2018; Keeling et al. 2019).

Aug 12, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Anna Hartford |Dan Stein |SAMRC Unit

1 Introduction Bertrand Russell married Alys Pearsall Smith in 1894. The match was strongly opposed by members of Russell's family, but his deep love, admiration, and attachment to Smith prevailed. For seven years they lived contentedly as man and wife. Then one unremarkable day Russell set out for an afternoon cycle and was struck by an emotional epiphany. ‘Suddenly, as I was riding along a country road, I realised that I no longer loved Alys’, he recounted in his autobiography.