Realism and Psychology

Collected Essays

AvNigel Mackay,Agnes Petocz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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This book is a collection of new, published and revised essays on the place and value of scientific realism in psychology. Through critical analyses of contemporary psychology, essays argue that the realist requirements of a properly scientific psychology are often misunderstood even in the discipline’s putatively scientific heart, with profound conceptual and empirical consequences. Against this, and in answer to recent calls to demonstrate the relevance of realism, the essays sketch the elements of a realist program: they discuss the recent history, development and principal features of a distinctive, thoroughgoing, realism for psychology: its theories, concepts, methods and applications. It thus aims to extend realism from philosophy to psychology, articulate a realist metatheory, clarify realism’s relevance, and promote its discussion.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-12-17
Mått:160 x 240 x 58 mm
Vikt:1 765 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Philosophy of History and Culture
Antal sidor:912
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004188877

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Nigel Mackay, D.Phil. (1982), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of the monograph Motivation and Explanation (1989) on Freud’s philosophy of science, and various papers on theory and method.Agnes Petocz, PhD. (1996) in Psychology, University of Sydney, is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Western Sydney. She has published on various topics in psychology and philosophy, and is author of Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism (CUP, 1999).

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"Mackay and Petocz have put together an impressive and formidable collection of papers that will undoubtedly do much to raise the profile of realist psychology."Viren Swami, University of Westminster

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IntroductionPart 1: The Nature and Context of Realism1. Realism and the state of theory in psychology.N. Mackay & A. Petocz2. Essays in realism: Analysis and discussion.N. Mackay & A. Petocz3. Anderson’s development of (situational) realism and its bearing on psychology today.F. J. HibberdPart 2: From Philosophy to Psychology4. The knower and the known.J. Anderson5. The concept of attitude.J. R. Maze6. Drives and consummatory actions.J. R. Maze7. Maze's direct realism and the character of cognition.J. MichellPart 3: Critiques and Developments8. “Out there”, not “in here”: A Realist account of conceptsT. McMullen9. Representationism, realism and the redundancy of ‘mentalese’.J. R. Maze10. Constructivism, direct realism and the nature of error.A. Rantzen11. Concept, class, and category in the tradition of Aristotle.J. P. Sutcliffe12. Normal science, pathological science and psychometrics.J. Michell13. Social constructionism, deconstructionism and some requirements of discourse.J. R. Maze14. Reply to Gergen.F. J. Hibberd15. On some accounts of meaning and their problems.N. Mackay16. Why psychology has neglected symbolism and what a realist approach can offer.A. Petocz17. A new psychology—the metaphysical and the mundane.P. Bell18. The place of qualitative research in psychology.J. Michell19. Science, meaning and the scientist-practitioner model of treatment.A. Petocz20. Addressing mental plurality: justification, objections and logical requirements of strongly partitive accounts of mind.S. Boag21. Rezoning pleasure: Drives and affects in personality theory.D. McIlwain22. A realist account of mental causation.S. Medlow23. Drive theory reconsidered (again!).G. Newbery