What's Behind the Research?: Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
	Obstructions to Discovering Hidden Ideas
	Overview of the Book
2. Human Images
	The Nature of Theory
	Psychodynamic Theory
	Assumptions and Implications of Psychodynamic Theory
	Behaviorist Theory
	Assumptions and Implications of Behaviorist Theory
	Humanistic Theory
	Assumptions and Implications of Humanistic Theory
	Cognitive Theory
	Assumptions and Implications of Cognitive Theory
	Eclecticism
	Assumptions and Implications of Eclectic Theory
	Structuralism
	Assumptions and Implications of Structuralism
	Postmodernism
	Assumptions and Implications of Postmodern Theory
	Conclusion
3. Ways of Knowing
	Conventional Ways of Knowing
	An Alternative Epistemology
	Postmodern Ways of “Knowing”
	Conclusion
4. Determinism
	Determinism in the Behavioral Sciences
	The Need for Alternatives
	The Conditions of Causality
	The Antecedence of Causality
	The Four Causes
	Free Will and Determinism
	Human Context of Agency
	Conclusion
5. Reductionism
	The Origins of Reductionism in the History of Western Thought
	Conceptual Problems Attending Reductionism
	An Alternative Approach to the Problem of Reduction
	Conclusion
6. Science and Human Behavior
	The Nature of Science
	Our Modern View of Science
	Are the Behavioral Sciences Scientific?
	The Assumptions of Science
	Examination of Science and the Possibility of Behavioral Science
	Alternative Views of the Nature and Role of Science in the Behavioral Sciences
	Conclusion
7. Conclusion
	Common Responses
	Organizing the Assumptions
	Behavioral Sciences: Present and Future
Glossary
References
Index
About the Authors