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9780122249600

Science of Mind : The Quest of Psychological Reality

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    9780122249600

  • ISBN10:

    0122249607

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1991-02-01
  • Publisher: Academic Pr

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Summary

This book explains the social factors that shape the nature of theory and research traditions in psychology. It presents a broad treatment of the construction of theory and knowledge in science and philosophy with particular emphasis on psychological thinking. Du Preez, emphasizing the "evolution of knowledge," discusses theory and research across behaviorism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, cognitive psychology, and many other psychological areas, placing them in their socio-philosophical contexts. Sketches a theory of mind which is reflexively applicable to the theorist**Identifies selectors which influence the evolution of research traditions**Uses Kuhn's concept of a disciplinary matrix to describe the structure of research traditions**Illustrates the concept of a research tradition by reference to existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis, genetic epistemology, and radical behaviorism

Table of Contents

Research Traditions in Psychology: The Knowledge Matrix
Paradigms and Disciplinary Matrixes
Research Traditions and Theories
Rhetoric and Change in Research Traditions: The Uses of Metaphor; or a Hatful of Larks
Displacements: Metaphor/Metonymy/Myth
The Fulcrum of Reason: Truism/Axiom/Tautology
Problem-solving and the Evolution of Theory
Problem-solving and Strategies of Competition
Values
The Quest for the Real
Toward a Reflexive Psychology: Polyphonic Beings
Epilogue
References
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