Selected Philosophical and Methodological Papers
Published on 1. August 1991
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-0-8166-1855-2 (ISBN)
Description
In addition to a career as a psychologist, Paul Meehl has contributed to philosophical literature with his analytical papers on such topics as the mind-body problem, freedom and determinism, psychoanalytical explanation, theory appraisal, moral aspects of insanity and the law, psychoanalytical explanation, theory appraisal, moral aspects of insanity and the law, precognitive telepathy and other methodological matters. A co-founder of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, with Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars, the papers Meehl wrote with them, as well as his treatment of hypothetical constructs and intervening variables, are included in this collection. Also included is "Psychological Determinism and Human Rationality - A Psychologist's Reactions to Professor Karl Popper's `Of Clouds and Clocks'".
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-1855-2 (9780816618552)
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Person
Paul E. Meehl was Regents' Professor of Psychology and a professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He was also a practicing clinical psychotherapist, a former president of the American Psychological Association, and the author of Clinical versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence, also published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Content
Foreword, C.Anthony Anderson and Keith Gunderson; theoretical risks and tabular asterisks - Sir Karl, Sir Ronald and the slow progress of soft psychology; psychological determinism and human rationality - a psychologist's reactions to Professor Karl Poppers' "Of Clouds and Clocks"; the determinism - freedom and the mind body problems, Herbert Feigl and Meehl; psychological determinism or chance - configural cerebral autoselection as a tertium quid; a most peculiar paradox; the complete autocerebroscopist - a thought-experiment on Professor Feigl's mind-body identity thesis; on a distinction between hypothetical constructs and intervening variables, Kenneth MacCorquodale and Meehl; psychopathology and purpose; some methodological reflections on the difficulties of psychoanalytic research; subjectivity in psychoanalytic interference - the nagging persistence of Wilhelm Fliess's achensee question; the virtues of M'Naghten, Joseph M.Livermore and Meehl; on the justifications for civil commitment, Joseph M.Livermore et al; psychology and the criminal law; law and the fireside inductions - some reflections of a clinical psychologist; the insanity defense; compatibility of science and ESP; precognitive telephthy I - on the possibility of distinguishing it from psychokinesis; precognitive telepathy II - some neurophysiological conjectures and metaphysical speculations.