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Realism and psychology : collected essays /

A "collection of new, published and revised essays on the place and value of scientific realism in psychology"--P, [4] of ocver.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mackay, Nigel, Petocz, Agnes
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, ©2011.
Colección:Philosophy of history and culture ; v. 30.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.