Selected philosophical and methodological papers [[electronic resource] /] / Paul E. Meehl ; C. Anthony Anderson and Keith Gunderson, editors
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Meehl Paul E (Paul Everett), <1920-2003.>
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| Titolo: |
Selected philosophical and methodological papers [[electronic resource] /] / Paul E. Meehl ; C. Anthony Anderson and Keith Gunderson, editors
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1991 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (606 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 150/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Psychology - Philosophy |
| Psychology - Methodology | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
AndersonC. Anthony
GundersonKeith
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Selected philosophical and methodological papers |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-8340-9 |
| 1-4356-0578-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452136403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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