Theoretical issues in psychology: An introduction/ by Sacha Bem and Huib Looren de Jong

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.