Selected Philosophical and Methodological PapersU of Minnesota Press, 1991 - 574 من الصفحات The scope and imagination of Meehl's (emeritus of psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy at the U. of Minnesota, and cofounder of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science) work are revealed in this collection of previously published essays as he explores the mind-body problem, freedom and determinism, psychoanalytic explanation, theory appraisal, moral aspects of insanity and the law, and precognitive telepathy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks Sir Karl Sir Ronald and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology | 3 |
Psychological Determinism and Human Rationality A Psychologists Reactions to Professor Karl Poppers Of Clouds and Clocks | 45 |
The DeterminismFreedom and BodyMind Problems | 91 |
Psychological Determinism or Chance Configural Cerebral Autoselection as a Tertium Quid | 130 |
A Most Peculiar Paradox | 163 |
The Concept of Emergence | 165 |
The Compleat Autocerebroscopist A ThoughtExperiment on Professor Feigls MindBody Identity Thesis | 178 |
On a Distinction between Hypothetical Constructs and Intervening Variables | 240 |
On the Justifications for Civil Commitment | 355 |
Psychology and the Criminal Law | 356 |
Law and the Fireside Inductions Some Reflections of a Clinical Psychologist | 376 |
The Insanity Defense | 399 |
Compatibility of Science and ESP | 415 |
Precognitive Telepathy I On the Possibility of Distinguishing It Experimentally from Psychokinesis | 418 |
Precognitive Telepathy II Some Neurophysiological Conjectures and Metaphysical Speculations | 444 |
Acknowledgments | 461 |
Psychopathology and Purpose | 241 |
Some Methodological Reflections on the Difficulties of Psychoanalytic Research | 248 |
Subjectivity in Psychoanalytic Inference The Nagging Persistence of Wilhelm Fliesss Achensee Question | 256 |
The Virtues of MNaghten | 302 |
Publications of P E Meehl | 463 |
Index | 471 |
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة xvi - The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. The result of philosophy is not a number of 'philosophical propositions,' but to make propositions clear.