Psychology in Human Context
Essays in Dissidence and Reconstruction
Edited and with a Preface by David Finkelman and Frank Kessel
452 pages, 6 x 9
©
1999
Cloth $97.00
ISBN: 9780226449302
Published July 1999
Paper $31.00
ISBN: 9780226449319
Published July 1999
Editors' Preface Introduction 1. Vagrant Confessions of an Asystematic Psychologist: An Intellectual Autobiography Part One: The Prospects and Limits of a Significant Psychology 2. Psychology and Emerging Conceptions of Knowledge as Unitary 3. The Age of the "Paradigm" 4. Psychology versus the Psychological Studies Part Two: Steps toward Reconstruction 5. A Theory of Definition: Implications for Psychology, Science, and the Humanities 6. The Concept of "Value Properties" in Relation to Motivation, Perception, and the Axiological Disciplines Part Three - Studies in the Pathology of Knowledge 7. The Allures of Ameaning in Modern Psychology 8. Ameaning in the Humanities 9. Psychology and Its Human Clientele: Beneficiaries or Victims? 10. The Image of Man in Encounter Groups 11. Clark Hull and Psychology's Age of Theory 12. Skinner's Philosophy of Behaviorism 13. Karl Edward Zener: A Contract Case 14. Psychology's Bridgman versus Bridgman's Bridgman: A Study in Cognitive Psychology Coda 15. The Limits of Psychological Knowledge: Lessons of a Century qua "Science" References Acknowledgments Index
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