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Empiricism and the foundations of psychology /
Intended for philosophically minded psychologists and psychologically minded philosophers, this book identifies the ways that psychology has hobbled itself by adhering too strictly to empiricism, this being the doctrine that all knowledge is observation-based. In the first part of this two-part work...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins,
2012.
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| Colección: | Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ;
v. 87 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Intended for philosophically minded psychologists and psychologically minded philosophers, this book identifies the ways that psychology has hobbled itself by adhering too strictly to empiricism, this being the doctrine that all knowledge is observation-based. In the first part of this two-part work, we show that empiricism is false. In the second part, we identify the psychology-relevant consequences of this fact. Five of these are of special importance: (i) Whereas some psychopathologies (e.g. obsessive-compulsive disorder) corrupt the activity mediated by one's psychological architecture. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 477 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027273857 9027273855 |