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Theoretical issues in psychology : an introduction
- Title
- Theoretical issues in psychology : an introduction / Sacha Bem and Huib Looren de Jong.
- Author
- Bem, Sacha, 1940-
- Publication
- London : SAGE, 2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Looren de Jong, Huibert.
- Description
- xv, 312 pages
- Summary
- This overview of the scientific and philosophical status of psychology provides a comprehensive guide to the theoretical issues at the heart of contemporary psychology.
- Subject
- Note
- Previous ed.: 1997.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-303) and indexes.
- Contents
- 1. Science : why, and how? : some basic ideas in scientific method -- 2. Kinds of explanations : laws, interpretations and functions -- 3. Philosophy of science (1) : logical positivism and its failure -- 4. Philosophy of science (2) : recent proposals and debates on scientific knowledge -- 5. Sociology and psychology of science -- 6. Introducing philosophy of mind, brain and cognition -- 7. Modern approaches to mind (1) : the language-based view : functionalism and the computational theory of mind -- 8. Modern approaches to mind (2) : the brain-based view : neurophilosophy, connectionism and dynamicism -- 9. The extended mind -- 10. Some issues at the interface of philosophy and psychology revisited.
- ISBN
- 0761942009
- 9780761942009
- 0761942017
- 9780761942016
- 080397826X
- 0803978278
- 9780803978263
- 9780803978270
- LCCN
- 2005926012
- OCLC
- ocm61878712
- 61878712
- SCSB-1384816
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library