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Health Problems - Philosophical Puzzles about the Nature of Health (Hardcover)
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Health Problems - Philosophical Puzzles about the Nature of Health (Hardcover)
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Health is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple
explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical
explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with
the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we
might approach difficult questions about social reality. After
examining extant theories of health - and finding them lacking -
the book explores some particularly intractable puzzles about the
nature of health, places where we often feel pulled in multiple
directions or have reason to say conflicting things. On the basis
of these puzzles, the book then defends a stance called
ameliorative skepticism. Although health is real, there is, on this
view, no way of giving a coherent, explanatorily adequate answer to
the question “what is health?” Yet adopting this skeptical
stance can, it is argued, help us to better understand the role
that health plays in our lives, and the work that we need a theory
of health to do.
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