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

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the third biennial conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, held in Arnhem, the Netherlands, April 17-21, 1989. Fifty-six papers were presented during the four days of the conference, including an invited address by Professor A. D. de Groot, and seven papers composing two plenary sessions, four on the con­ tribution of history to theory, and three on theoretical alternatives for contem­ porary psychology. Of these, 46 papers are presented in the proceedings; all of which suffered editorial changes and, with the exception of the invited ad­ dress, were required to meet a 15 page restriction on length. The editors gratefully acknowledge John Mills, Leendert Mos, and Hank Starn for their invaluable editorial assistance. The papers included here are presented without discussants' commen­ taries. (Over 125 psychologists participated at the conference.) While the papers are representative of the scope of topics covered at the conference, the hours of formal and informal discussions must, unfortunately, be left to the reader's imagination. We encourage the reader to attend one of our next conferences, planned biennially, and alternately, in North America (1991) and Europe (1993). 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 This volume constitutes the proceedings of the third biennial conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, held in Arnhem, the Netherlands, April 17-21, 1989. Fifty-six papers were presented during the four days of the conference, including an invited address by Professor A.D. de Groot, and seven papers composing two plenary sessions, four on the conƯ tribution of history to theory, and three on theoretical alternatives for contemƯ porary psychology. Of these, 46 papers are presented in the proceedings; all of which suffered editorial changes and, with the exception of the invited adƯ dress, were required to meet a 15 page restriction on length. The editors gratefully acknowledge John Mills, Leendert Mos, and Hank Starn for their invaluable editorial assistance. The papers included here are presented without discussants' commenƯ taries. (Over 125 psychologists participated at the conference.) While the papers are representative of the scope of topics covered at the conference, the hours of formal and informal discussions must, unfortunately, be left to the reader's imagination. We encourage the reader to attend one of our next conferences, planned biennially, and alternately, in North America (1991) and Europe (1993) This book is a compilation of papers by a cross-section of European and North American scholars from the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. The papers were selected to represent the multifaceted nature of theoretical psychology as it attempts to deal with the myriad range of questions raised for psychology in the post-positivist era in the philosophy of science. Any reader interested in the social sciences will find topics of interest in the set. Since we can no longer take the fundamental principles of these sci- ences for granted, these papers will provide an opening dialogue on our future development. A compilation of papers, from the third biennial conference, by members of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology which deals with questions raised in the post-positivist era of the philosophy of science. The text questions basic principles so as to suggest future research.