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Selected philosophical and methodological papers /
A collection of papers that demonstrates the unusual scope and imagination of Meehl's contributions to the field of philosophy, inlcuding incisive writings on the mind-body problem, freedom and determinism, psychoanalytic explanation, theory appraisal, mo.
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©1991.
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- Foreword; Preface; 1. Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology; 2. Psychological Determinism and Human Rationality: A Psychologist's Reactions to Professor Karl Popper's Of Clouds and Clocks
- 3. The Determinism-Freedom and Body-Mind Problems; 4. Psychological Determinism or Chance: Configural Cerebral Autoselection as a Tertium Quid; 5. A Most Peculiar Paradox; 6. The Concept of Emergence; 7. The Compleat Autocerebroscopist: A Thought-Experiment on Professor Feigl's Mind-Body Identity Thesis.
- 8. On a Distinction between Hypothetical Constructs and Intervening Variables9. Psychopathology and Purpose; 10. Some Methodological Reflections on the Difficulties of Psychoanalytic Research; 11. Subjectivity in Psychoanalytic Inference: The Nagging Persistence of Wilhelm Fliess's Achensee Question; 12. The Virtues of M'Naghten; 13. On the Justifications for Civil Commitment; 14. Psychology and the Criminal Law; 15. Law and the Fireside Inductions: Some Reflections of a Clinical Psychologist; 16. The Insanity Defense; 17. Compatibility of Science and ESP.
- 18. Precognitive Telepathy I: On the Possibility of Distinguishing It Experimentally from Psychokinesis19. Precognitive Telepathy II: Some Neurophysiological Conjectures and Metaphysical Speculations; Acknowledgments; Publications of P.E. Meehl; Index.