Realism and psychology : collected essays

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Introduction Part 1: The Nature and Context of Realism 1. Realism and the state of theory psychology. N. Mackay & A. Petocz 2. Essays realism: Analysis and discussion. N. Mackay & A. Petocz 3. Anderson's development of (situational) realism and its bearing on psychology today. F. J. Hibberd Part 2: From Philosophy to Psychology 4. The knower and the known. J. Anderson 5. The concept of attitude. J. R. Maze 6. Drives and consummatory actions. J. R. Maze 7. Maze's direct realism and the character of cognition. J. Michell Part 3: Critiques and Developments 8. Out there, not in here: A Realist account of concepts T. McMullen 9. Representationism, realism and the redundancy of 'mentalese'. J. R. Maze 10. Constructivism, direct realism and the nature of error. A. Rantzen 11. Concept, class, and category the tradition of Aristotle. J. P. Sutcliffe 12. Normal science, pathological science and psychometrics. J. Michell 13. Social constructionism, deconstructionism and some requirements of discourse. J. R. Maze 14. Reply to Gergen. F. J. Hibberd 15. On some accounts of meaning and their problems. N. Mackay 16. Why psychology has neglected symbolism and what a realist approach can offer. A. Petocz 17. A new psychology-the metaphysical and the mundane. P. Bell 18. The place of qualitative research psychology. J. Michell 19. Science, meaning and the scientist-practitioner model of treatment. A. Petocz 20. Addressing mental plurality: justification, objections and logical requirements of strongly partitive accounts of mind. S. Boag 21. Rezoning pleasure: Drives and affects personality theory. D. McIlwain 22. A realist account of mental causation. S. Medlow 23. Drive theory reconsidered (again!). G. Newbery

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