Many of my psychiatric colleagues in the real world (outside my little bubble of philosophically minded friends) are so eager to avoid dualism that they fall right into the lap of reductionism without even realizing it.

Our general view of the mind-brain relationship is so conceptually impoverished that most clinicians even struggle to articulate what such a relationship can be if it is not dualistic or reductionistic.

I cannot overstate the degree to which Ken Kendler has made pluralism a respectable position by putting his weight behind it; he has made it possible for many psychiatrists to counter the “mental disorders are brain disorders” thinking without immediately losing credibility.