| Autore |
Martin Jack <1950->
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (197 p.)
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| Disciplina |
155.2
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
SugarmanJeff <1955->
ThompsonJanice <1964->
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| Collana |
SUNY series, alternatives in psychology
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| Soggetto topico |
Autonomy (Psychology)
Psychology
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| ISBN |
0-7914-8684-2
1-4175-3605-5
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Psychology and the Question of Agency -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Psychology and the Question of Agency -- SOME RELEVANT BACKGROUND FOR WHAT FOLLOWS -- PSYCHOLOGY'S DISAVOWAL OF AGENCY -- THE BASIC ERROR -- METHOD OVER SUBSTANCE -- ASPIRATIONS -- 2. Reductionism in Psychology -- A HISTORICAL SKETCH -- IDENTITY VERSUS REQUIREMENT -- OMISSIONS -- SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS -- RESEARCH PRACTICES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF PSEUDO-PSYCHOLOGICAL KINDS -- CAUSAL WOES -- VARIABILITY AND ITS STATISTICAL TREATMENT -- MANUFACTURING AND GENERALIZING PSYCHOLOGICAL ENTITIES -- THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY -- THE EXAMPLE OF SELF-CONCEPT -- ANOTHER KIND OF REDUCTIONISM IN PSYCHOLOGY -- AN ANTIDOTE IN BRIEF -- 3. Between Hard Determinism and Radical Freedom -- DEFINITIONS AND DISTINCTIONS -- A CRITICAL CONSIDERATION OF SOME NOTABLE ATTEMPTS AT SOFT DETERMINISM -- PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory -- Theory of Mind and Intentional Self-Development -- Theoretical Psychology of Agency -- HERMENEUTICS AND AGENCY -- 4. The Underdetermination and Irreducibility of Agency -- AN ARGUMENT FOR THE UNDERDETERMINATION OF AGENCY -- STRUCTURE OF THE ARGUMENT -- AGAINST FULL PHYSICAL-BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM -- AGAINST FULL SOCIOCULTURAL DETERMINISM -- AGAINST RANDOMNESS AND UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES ALONE -- AGENCY AS THE SURVIVING, PLAUSIBLE OPTION -- CONTEMPORARY PROGRAMS OF REDUCTIONISM AND THE IRREDUCIBILITY OF AGENCY -- CENTRAL STATE MATERIALISM -- SUPERVENIENCE AND FUNCTIONALISM -- COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF MIND -- WHAT IS MISSING IN REDUCTIVE FUNCTIONALISM AND COMPUTATIONALISM? -- SUMMARY AND LINKS -- 5. A Theory of Situated, Emergent, and Deliberative Agency -- LEVELS OF REALITY -- BEING-IN-THE-WORLD -- TIERED REALITY -- AN EXISTENTIAL STARTING POINT AND A BRIEF CONCEPTION OF PERSONHOOD.
THE DEVELOPMENTAL EMERGENCE OF SITUATED, DELIBERATIVE AGENCY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL KINDS -- UNDERSTANDING AND CARE WITHIN TRADITIONS OF LIVING -- SUMMARIZING OUR THEORY OF AGENCY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL KINDS -- IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA -- A FINAL WORD -- 6. Putting Agency into Psychology -- RE-ENVISIONING PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH: REINFORCEMENT THEORY AND BEYOND -- REINFORCEMENT THEORY REVISITED -- BEYOND REINFORCEMENT THEORY -- RE-ENVISIONING PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTICE -- THE NATURE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY -- THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY -- THE EDUCATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPISTS -- THE SOCIOPOLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SITUATED, EMERGENT, AND DELIBERATIVE AGENCY -- LIBERALISM AND COMMUNITARIANISM -- THE POLITICAL DISPOSITION OF A SITUATED, EMERGENT, AND DELIBERATIVE AGENCY -- A CONCLUDING COMMENT -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820816303321 |
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