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Selected philosophical and methodological papers / Paul E. Meehl ; C. Anthony Anderson and Keith Gunderson, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meehl, Paul E. (Paul Everett), 1920-2003.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--Philosophy.
- Psychology.
- Psychology--Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (606 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- "Publications of P.E. Mehl": p. 547-558.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8340-9
- 1-4356-0578-0
- OCLC:
- 229431582
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