Realism and psychology : collected essays /

Realism and psychology : collected essays /

This book is a collection of new, published and revised essays on the place and value of scientific realism in psychology. Through critical analyses of contemporary psychology, essays argue that the realist requirements of a properly scientific psychology are often misunderstood even in the discipli...

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Other Authors: Mackay, Nigel., Petocz, Agnes.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2011.

Series: Philosophy of History and Culture 30.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004223110.

Subjects:

Cognition.
Psychology.
Realism.

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Call Number: BF311 .R35 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Nigel Mackay and Agnes Petocz
  • Introduction /
  • Nigel Mackay and Agnes Petocz
  • The Nature and Context of Realism Realism and the state of theory in psychology /
  • N. Mackay and A. Petocz
  • Essays in realism: Analysis and discussion /
  • N. Mackay and A. Petocz
  • Anderson's development of (situational) realism and its bearing on psychology today /
  • F. J. Hibberd
  • From Philosophy to Psychology The knower and the known /
  • J. Anderson
  • The concept of attitude /
  • J. R. Maze
  • Drives and consummatory actions /
  • J. R. Maze
  • Maze's direct realism and the character of cognition /
  • J. Michell
  • Critiques and Developments "Out there", not "in here": A Realist account of concepts /
  • T. McMullen
  • Representationism, realism and the redundancy of 'mentalese' /
  • J. R. Maze
  • Constructivism, direct realism and the nature of error /
  • A. Rantzen
  • Concept, class, and category in the tradition of Aristotle /
  • J. P. Sutcliffe
  • Normal science, pathological science and psychometrics /
  • J. Michell
  • Social constructionism, deconstructionism and some requirements of discourse /
  • J. R. Maze
  • Reply to Gergen /
  • F. J. Hibberd
  • On some accounts of meaning and their problems /
  • N. Mackay
  • Why psychology has neglected symbolism and what a realist approach can offer /
  • A. Petocz
  • A new psychology-the metaphysical and the mundane /
  • P. Bell
  • The place of qualitative research in psychology /
  • J. Michell
  • Science, meaning and the scientist-practitioner model of treatment /
  • A. Petocz
  • Addressing mental plurality: justification, objections and logical requirements of strongly partitive accounts of mind /
  • S. Boag
  • Rezoning pleasure: Drives and affects in personality theory /
  • D. McIlwain
  • A realist account of mental causation /
  • S. Medlow
  • Drive theory reconsidered (again!) /
  • G. Newbery
  • Afterword /
  • Nigel Mackay and Agnes Petocz
  • Index of Persons /
  • Nigel Mackay and Agnes Petocz
  • Subject index /
  • Nigel Mackay and Agnes Petocz.