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The authors discuss the challenges of psychiatric nosology and diagnosis, relative to the article by M. Aragona regarding study of subjective experience as a scientific work for psychopathology. They explore the proposition of Emil Kraeplelin that mental disorders can be detected by studying case histories and identifying specific disorders. They say that diagnostic manuals led to the drop in careful evaluation of individual experiences and social context.

This article deals with mechanisms conceived as composed of entities and activities. In response to many perplexities about the nature of activities, a number of arguments are developed concerning their epistemic and ontological status. Some questions concerning the relations between cause and causal explanation and mechanisms are also addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the theory given by sociologist Thomas Kuhn regarding social epistemology. Role of personal factors in the context of emerging scientific paradigms; Distinction between the shared and individual bases of theory choice.