Realism and psychology : : collected essays / / edited by Nigel Mackay, Agnes Petocz.

• Superior document: Philosophy of history and culture ; v. 30
• TeilnehmendeR: Mackay, Nigel.; Petocz, Agnes.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.; c2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophy of history and culture ; v. 30; Philosophy of History and Culture 30.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (944 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 discipli...

Table of 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.