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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,
1987.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents; 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.