| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 911 pages) |
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Philosophy of history and culture ; v. 30 |
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Philosophy of history and culture ; v. 30.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
A "collection of new, published and revised essays on the place and value of scientific realism in psychology"--P, [4] of ocver |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognition.
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Psychology.
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Realism.
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cognition.
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psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- General.
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Cognition
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Psychology
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Realism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mackay, Nigel
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Petocz, Agnes
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| ISBN |
9789004194878 |
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9004194878 |
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