TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bem, Sacha
AU  - Looren de Jong, Huib
TI  - Theoretical issues in psychology: An introduction
SN  - 0-8039-7826-X
U1  - Bcir. 155 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - --London
PB  - SAGE Publications
N1  - Includes glossary, bibliography, name and subject index; Contents.  --1. Theory of Science for Psychology.  --1.1 Introduction.  --1.2 Knowledge, everyday knowledge and science.  --1.3 Arguments, laws, theories, model and facts.  --1.4 Explanation and understanding.  --1.5 Functional and teleological explanations.  --1.6 Reduction, supervenience and strata.  --1.7 Reasons and causes Suggested reading.  --2. Philosophy of science for Psychology.  --2.1 Introduction: scientific methods and rationality.  --2.2 Logical positivism and demarcation.  --2.3 Problems with the standard view of science.  --2.4 Demarcation-popper.  --2.5 Demarcation abandoned - Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend.  --2.6 Alternatives to positivism 1 - hermeneutics, constructionism, rhetoric.  --2.7 Problems of realism and relativism.  --2.8 Alternatives to positivism 2. - scientific realism and pragmatism.  --3. Sociology and Psychology of science.  --3.1 Introduction.  --3.2 Ideology and the sociology of knowledge.  --3.3 Critical Theory and the sociology of science.  --3.4 The Strong Programme in the Sociology of knowledge.  --3.5 The sociology of scientific practice.  --3.6 And what about a psychology of science?.  --4. Philosophy of Mind.  --4.1 Introduction: the nature of mind.  --4.2 The explananda: consciousness, intentionality, representation.  --4.3 The orthodoxy: the computational theory of mind.  --4.4 The competition: eliminativism and connectionism.   --4.5 Other views, same issues.  --4.6 Against mechanistic theories of mind: some alternatives
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