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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kuczynski, John-Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2012.
Colección:Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 87
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : empiricism and scientism
  • A dogmatic statement of the problems with empiricism
  • Empiricism's blindness to the non-spatiotemporal
  • Wittgenstein on meaning : part 1 the picture-theory
  • Wittgenstein on meaning : part 2 meaning as use
  • Some consequences of the empiricism-driven conflation of analytic with introspective knowledge
  • Subpersonal mentation
  • Empiricist conceptions of causation and explanation
  • Skepticism about induction and about perception.