This volume is a collection of new, published and revised essays, providing a distinctive, thoroughgoing, realist approach to contemporary psychological theories, concepts, methods, and applications. The essays also offer critical analyses of antirealist trends both in and outside of mainstream psychology

Agnes Petocz; Nigel Mackay

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Philosophy of history and culture, Leiden, 2010

Netherlands, Netherlands

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Realism and Psychology 3
CONTENTS 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 12
INTRODUCTION 17
PART ONE THE NATURE AND CONTEXT OF REALISM 30
CHAPTER ONE 31
REALISM AND THE STATE OF THEORY IN PSYCHOLOGY 31
CHAPTER TWO 66
ESSAYS IN REALISM: ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION 66
CHAPTER THREE 133
JOHN ANDERSON’S DEVELOPMENT OF (SITUATIONAL) REALISM AND ITS BEARING ON PSYCHOLOGY TODAY1 133
PART TWO FROM PHILOSOPHY TO PSYCHOLOGY 173
CHAPTER FOUR 174
THE KNOWER AND THE KNOWN (1927)1 174
CHAPTER FIVE 196
THE CONCEPT OF ATTITUDE1 196
CHAPTER SIX 244
DRIVES AND CONSUMMATORY ACTIONS1 244
CHAPTER SEVEN 293
MAZE'S DIRECT REALISM AND THE CHARACTER OF COGNITION1 293
PART THREE CRITIQUES AND DEVELOPMENTS 336
CHAPTER EIGHT 337
“OUT THERE”, NOT “IN HERE”: A REALIST ACCOUNT OF CONCEPTS 337
CHAPTER NINE 369
REPRESENTATIONISM, REALISM AND THE REDUNDANCY OF ‘MENTALESE’1 369
CHAPTER TEN 399
CONSTRUCTIVISM, DIRECT REALISM AND THE NATURE OF ERROR1 399
CHAPTER ELEVEN 434
CONCEPT, CLASS, AND CATEGORY IN THE TRADITION OFARISTOTLE1 434
CHAPTER TWELVE 512
NORMAL SCIENCE, PATHOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND PSYCHOMETRICS1 512
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 551
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM, DECONSTRUCTIONISM AND SOME REQUIREMENTS OF DISCOURSE1 551
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 586
REPLY TO GERGEN1 586
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 599
ON SOME ACCOUNTS OF MEANING AND THEIR PROBLEMS1 599
CHAPTER SIXTEEN 648
WHY PSYCHOLOGY HAS NEGLECTED SYMBOLISM AND WHAT A REALIST APPROACH CAN OFFER 648
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 703
A NEW PSYCHOLOGY – THE METAPHYSICAL AND THE MUNDANE1 703
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 729
THE PLACE OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY1 729
CHAPTER NINETEEN 750
SCIENCE, MEANING AND THE SCIENTIST-PRACTITIONER MODEL OF TREATMENT1 750
CHAPTER TWENTY 778
ADDRESSING MENTAL PLURALITY: JUSTIFICATION, OBJECTIONS AND LOGICAL REQUIREMENTS OF STRONGLY PARTITIVE ACCOUNTSOF MIND1 778
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 806
REZONING PLEASURE: DRIVES AND AFFECTS IN PERSONALITY THEORY1 806
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 853
A REALIST ACCOUNT OF MENTAL CAUSATION 853
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 890
DRIVE THEORY RECONSIDERED (AGAIN!) 890
AFTERWORD 923
INDEX OF PERSONS 933
SUBJECT INDEX 943

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