Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology: Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology April 17–21, 1989

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Unifying Psychology: Its Preconditions....Pages 1-25
A Phenomenological Vision for Psychology....Pages 27-36
For a Materialist Psychology....Pages 37-49
Realities and their Relationships....Pages 51-62
The Myth of Mind and the Mistake of Psychology....Pages 63-70
Hermeneutics of Explanation: Or, if Science is Theoretical why Isn’t Psychology?....Pages 71-84
Do Mental Events Exist?....Pages 85-96
What Distinguishes Lay Persons’ Psychological Explanations from those of Psychologists?....Pages 97-106
Theory of Action in Psychology: A Narrative Perspective....Pages 107-112
Probability and Meaning: A Division in Behavioral Cognition Dividing Behavioral Science....Pages 113-120
Naturalism and Intentionality....Pages 121-131
A Hermeneutical Analysis of the Social-Psychological....Pages 133-144
‘Doing Theory’ in Psychology: Feminist Re-Actions....Pages 145-153
Münchhausen-Objectivity: A Bootstrap-Conception of Objectivity as a Methodological Norm....Pages 155-165
Psychology and the Problem of Verisimilitude....Pages 167-175
Identifying the Properties of Linguistically Expressed Experience: Empirical Induction or Intuition of Essences?....Pages 177-183
The Scientist Who Mistook His Object for a Method, or: Can We Make a Non-Classical Psychology?....Pages 185-192
Essential Unpredictability....Pages 193-209
John Dewey’s Reconstruction of the Reflex-Arc Concept and its Relevance for Bowlby’s Attachment Theory....Pages 211-220
Two Conceptions of Stage Structure and the Problem of Novelty in Development....Pages 221-227
Thinking of Emotions: A Socio-Cognitive View....Pages 229-236
Thinking in Society....Pages 237-242
The Mutual Construction of Social and Self: A Social Critique of Social Cognition....Pages 243-250
From Feminist Research to New Categories in Psychology: What Is and What May Be....Pages 251-259
Mental Representation and Meaning: Arguments Against the Computational View....Pages 261-266
Cognitive Representations and Intentionality and the Realism-Relativism Controversy....Pages 267-274
The Computational Theory of Mind and Constraints on the Notions of Symbol and Mental Representation....Pages 275-283
Bottom-Up Approaches to Cognition: A Defence of Cognitive Neuroscience....Pages 285-296
The Social Context of Research Practice and the History of Psychology....Pages 297-303
Recontextualization as a Contribution of History to Theoretical Psychology....Pages 305-315
In Praise of ‘Problemgeschichte’....Pages 317-325
How Can Intellectual History Help Us to Understand Psychological Theories?....Pages 327-334
The Origins and Significance of Clark L. Hull’s Theory of Value....Pages 335-345
Interactionist Theory and Disciplinary Interactions: Psychology, Sociology and Social Psychology in France....Pages 347-358
A Cognitive Revolution in Infancy Research?....Pages 359-367
Piaget, Vygotsky, and the Development of Consciousness....Pages 369-376
The Significance of Bühler’s ‘Axiomatic’ and Vygotsky’s ‘General Psychology’ for Theoretical Psychology and its Persistent Monism-Pluralism-Debate....Pages 377-388
Demystifying Vygotsky’s Concept of the Zone of Proximal Development....Pages 389-397
Personal and Social Preconceptions in the Formation of Psycho/Sociological Theory: Freud’s Seduction Hypothesis and the Case of Child Sexual Abuse....Pages 399-404
Freud’s Doctor’s Bag: On His Heuristic Resources....Pages 405-413
On the Function of Folk Psychology in the Theory and History of Psychology....Pages 415-422
A Functional Theory of Illness....Pages 423-429
Tests Versus Contests: A Theory of Adjudication....Pages 431-438
A General Model for Interindividual Comparison....Pages 439-444
Toward a Theory of Human Communication....Pages 445-452
What is Psychologic?....Pages 453-457
Back Matter....Pages 459-465