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Positivism in psychology
historical and contemporary problems
Abstract
Positivism needs further scrutiny. In recent years, there has been little consensus about the nature of positivism or about the precise forms its influence has taken on psychological theory. One symptom of this lack of clarity has been that ostensibly anti-positivist psychological theorizing is frequently found reproducing one or more distinctively positivist assumptions. The contributors to this volume believe that, while virtually every theoretically engaged psychologist today openly rejects positivism in both its 19th century and 20th century forms, it is indispensable to look at positivism from all sides and to appraise its role and importance in order to make possible the further development of psychological theory.
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what should psychology be about?
pp.9-16
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_2implications of the duhem-quine thesis for psychology
pp.17-24
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_3pp.47-56
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_5a case history in radical positivism
pp.57-65
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_6pp.67-82
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_7materialist or phenomenalist?
pp.83-102
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_8pp.103-118
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_9a second look
pp.119-144
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_10pp.145-154
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_11Egon Brunswik and contemporary social ecology
pp.155-184
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_12the conventionality of language
pp.185-216
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4402-8_13Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 1992
Pages: 221
Series: Recent Research in Psychology
ISBN (hardback): 978-0-387-97700-3
ISBN (digital): 978-1-4612-4402-8
Full citation:
Tolman Charles W. (1992) Positivism in psychology: historical and contemporary problems. Dordrecht, Springer.