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    It is not the case that The strong interpretation of the medical model does not rule out explanations that cite cognitive processes in brains

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    • 1.The medical model, as classically formulated by Boorse (1977), defines disease in terms of species-typical biological functioning, not cognitive or computational states.
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    • 2.Cognitive processes, as understood in cognitive science, are multiply realizable and thus resist reduction to the purely biological substrate the medical model requires.
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    • 3.Admitting cognitive-level explanations without reduction collapses the distinction between biological and psychological psychiatry, undermining the 'strong' qualifier entirely.
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    • 1.Szasz and Wakefield both argue that the medical model gains its normative force precisely from its commitment to value-free, structural pathology—not functional or representational failure.
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    • 2.Cognitive dysfunction explanations necessarily invoke norms of rationality and intentionality, which are irreducibly evaluative and thus external to a strictly biological explanatory framework.
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    • 1.Andreasen (1997) argues that schizophrenia and depression are cognitive pathologies
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    • 2.Andreasen conceives psychiatry as integrating information from related disciplines to develop models explaining cognitive dysfunctions based on normal mind/brain function
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    • 3.This conception of psychiatry is fully biological without being committed to a particular metaphysical interpretation of what biological explanation must look like
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