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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778396703321

Autore

Meehl Paul E (Paul Everett), <1920-2003.>

Titolo

Selected philosophical and methodological papers [[electronic resource] /] / Paul E. Meehl ; C. Anthony Anderson and Keith Gunderson, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1991

ISBN

0-8166-8340-9

1-4356-0578-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (606 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersonC. Anthony

GundersonKeith

Disciplina

150/.1

Soggetti

Psychology - Philosophy

Psychology - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

"Publications of P.E. Mehl": p. 547-558.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Inductions: Some Reflections of a Clinical Psychologist; 16. The Insanity Defense; 17. Compatibility of Science and ESP

18. Precognitive Telepathy I: On the Possibility of Distinguishing It



Experimentally from Psychokinesis19. Precognitive Telepathy II: Some Neurophysiological Conjectures and Metaphysical Speculations; Acknowledgments; Publications of P. E. Meehl; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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