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What does it mean to be mentally healthy? The answer has changed over time, says philosopher and historian of science Anya Plutynski. Her research on early 20th-century “mental hygiene” practitioners shows that some providers of the era sought to establish factors and skills that boosted patients’ mental health and prevented symptoms of mental illness from arising. That’s a different goal today’s standard of care, which more often equates mental health with the mere absence of the symptoms of mental illness. With her book-in-progress, “Making Mental Health,” Plutynski, a Faculty Fellow in the Center for the Humanities, is tracking the history of this early movement and considering why their approach was abandoned.

2.9.24

WashU Philosophers at the 2024 Central APA

We'll be in New Orleans!

2.7.24

Unlocking the Power: Why You Should Consider Hiring Philosophy Graduates

A philosophy graduate can help you unleash your true potential as a business leader — and help you take your business to new heights

2.7.24

Research, Students, Publications

Siegel and Craver's "Phenomenal Laws and Mechanistic Explanations" to appear in Philosophy of Science

3.22.23

Derek Braverman contributes to Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health

3.21.23

WashU Philosophy at the 2023 Pacific APA

3.8.23

Santosh and Plutynski to contribute to volume debunking myths about Darwin

3.7.23

WashU Philosophers at SSPP 2023

3.1.23

Alex Cunningham wins 2023 Stenner Essay Prize

3.1.23

Graham Renz's "Do Substances Have Formal Parts?" to appear in Analytic Philosophy

2.13.23

PNP PhD students at the 2023 Central APA

12.30.22

WashU Philosophers at the 2023 Eastern APA

12.27.22

Will Bell and Graham Renz's "Why There Is No Obligation to Love God" to appear in Religious Studies

11.14.22

Gabe Siegel's "Perceptual Modes of Presentation as Object Files" to appear in Erkenntnis

10.20.22

Judith Carlisle recognized by Arts & Sciences for research on trauma

9.14.22

James Gulledge defends "Perceptual Experience, Representation, and the Environment"

8.17.22

Xiaoyu Ke defends "Making Emotions Trustworthy"

8.4.22

One researcher’s artifact is another’s result

5.5.22

Judith Carlisle to contribute to Routledge volume on implicit cognition

12.10.21

Bioethics Undergrad Class Final Posters Fall 2021

8.17.21

Maria Waggoner publishes "The Focus of Virtue"

5.19.21

Anya Plutynski wins the 2021 Lakatos Award

12.8.20

Graham Renz publishes "What is Gods Power?" and "The Five-Category Ontology? E.J. Lowe and the Ontology of the Divine"

1.15.20

Graham Renz publishes "Hylomorphism and Complex Properties"

1.6.20

Nick Schuster publishes "Complex Harmony: Rethinking the Virtue-Continence Distinction"

12.18.19

Casey O'Callaghan publishes "A Multisensory Philosophy of Perception" with Oxford University Press

8.30.19

Will Fleisher publishes "Endorsement and Assertion"

6.20.19

Maria Doulatova publishes "Tracking Intentionalism and the Phenomenology of Mental Effort"

3.11.19

Emily Prychitko publishes "The causal situationist account of constitutive relevance"

8.2.17

Joseph McCaffrey and David Danks' paper has been accepted for publication