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Sigmund Koch

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
Subjects



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