Research Catalog

Title

The foundations of science and the concepts of psychology and psychoanalysis / edited by Herbert Feigl and Michael Scriven.

Author

Feigl, Herbert

Publication

• Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1956]
• ©1956

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Details

Additional Authors

Scriven, Michael

Description

xiv, 346 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 1.

Subject

• Science > Philosophy
• Psychology
• Psychoanalysis
• Philosophy
• Science
• Philosophy
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Psychology
• Science
• psychology
• psychoanalysis
• philosophy
• sciences (philosophy)
• science (modern discipline)
• Psychoanalysis
• Science > Philosophy
• Wetenschapsfilosofie
• Begrippen
• Psychologie
• Psychoanalyse

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Some major issues and developments in the philosophy of science of logical empiricism / Herbert Feigl -- The methodological character of theoretical concepts / Rudolf Carnap -- Critique of psychoanalytic concepts and theories / B.F. Skinner -- A study of radical behaviorism / Michael Scriven -- An operational reformulation of some of the basic principles of psychoanalysis / Albert Ellis -- Motives and the unconscious / Antony Flew -- Construct validity in psychological tests / L.J. Cronbach and P.E. Meehl -- Problems in the actuarial characterization of a person / P.E. Meehl -- On the logic of general behavior systems theory / R.C. Buck -- The concept of emergence / P.E. Meehl and Wilfrid Sellars -- Empiricism and the philosophy of mind / Wilfrid Sellars -- A possible distinction between traditional scientific disciplines and the study of human behavior / Michael Scriven.

ISBN

• 0816601224
• 9780816601226

LCCN

• 56011610
• 12006237 1442707 +UKX
• 12006237

OCLC

• ocm00576505
• 576505
• SCSB-2049229

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library