A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Conceptual Analysis and Psychology: An Overview....Pages 1-9
Prologue: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology as a Critical Instrument for the Psychological Sciences....Pages 10-27
Psychology’s Inescapable Need for Conceptual Clarification....Pages 28-50
Wittgenstein’s Method of Conceptual Investigation and Concept Formation in Psychology....Pages 51-71
Pictures of the Soul....Pages 72-86
Aspect Seeing in Wittgenstein and in Psychology....Pages 87-109
Parallels in the Foundations of Mathematics and Psychology....Pages 110-129
Animal Minds: Philosophical and Scientific Aspects....Pages 130-152
Realism, but Not Empiricism: Wittgenstein versus Searle....Pages 153-171
Can a Robot Smile? Wittgenstein on Facial Expression....Pages 172-194
A Return to ‘the Inner’ in Social Theory: Archer’s ‘Internal Conversation’....Pages 195-213
Reducing the Effort in Effortful Control....Pages 214-232
The Concepts of Suicidology....Pages 233-252
The Neuroscientific Case for a Representative Theory of Perception....Pages 253-273
Terror Management, Meaning Maintenance, and the Concept of Psychological Meaning....Pages 274-291
A Conceptual Investigation of Inferences Drawn from Infant Habituation Research....Pages 292-311
The Unconscious Theory in Modern Cognitivism....Pages 312-327
Back Matter....Pages 329-332