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Psychology in human context : essays in dissidence and reconstruction

Title
Psychology in human context : essays in dissidence and reconstruction / Sigmund Koch ; edited and with a preface by David Finkelman & Frank Kessel.
Author
Koch, Sigmund.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Finkelman, David.
  • Kessel, Frank S.
Description
x, 441 pages; 23 cm
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-425) and index.
Contents
  • 1. Vagrant Confessions of an Asystematic Psychologist: An Intellectual Autobiography -- Pt. 1. 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 -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Pt. 3. 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 Contrast Case. 14. Psychology's Bridgman versus Bridgman's Bridgman: A Study in Cognitive Pathology.
  • 15. The Limits of Psychological Knowledge: Lessons of a Century qua "Science"
ISBN
  • 0226449300 (alk. paper)
  • 0226449319 (pbk : alk. paper)
LCCN
98052008
OCLC
ocm40467366
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries