Mason Westfall to Johns Hopkins
Mason will join the Philosophy and the Foundations of Mind Program in Fall 2024
Mason will join the Philosophy and the Foundations of Mind Program in Fall 2024
Amanda will join the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in Fall 2024
Carlisle will join the Philosophy Department at the University of Tennessee in Fall of 2024
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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.
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