Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology
John-Michael Kuczynski
Sep 2012 · Advances in Consciousness Research Book 87 · John Benjamins Publishing
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Intended for philosophically minded psychologists and psychologically minded philosophers, this book identifies the ways that psychology has hobbled itself by adhering too strictly to empiricism, this being the doctrine that all knowledge is observation-based. In the first part of this two-part work, we show that empiricism is false. In the second part, we identify the psychology-relevant consequences of this fact. Five of these are of special importance: (i) Whereas some psychopathologies (e.g. obsessive-compulsive disorder) corrupt the activity mediated by ones psychological architecture, others (e.g. sociopathy) corrupt that architecture itself.
(ii) The basic tenets of psychoanalysis are coherent.
(iii) All propositional attitudes are beliefs.
(iv) Selves are minds that self-evaluate.
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(v) It is by giving our thoughts a perceptible form that we enable ourselves to evaluate them, and it is by expressing ourselves in language and art that we give our thoughts a perceptible form. (Series A)
(ii) The basic tenets of psychoanalysis are coherent.
(iii) All propositional attitudes are beliefs.
(iv) Selves are minds that self-evaluate.
And:
(v) It is by giving our thoughts a perceptible form that we enable ourselves to evaluate them, and it is by expressing ourselves in language and art that we give our thoughts a perceptible form. (Series A)
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anzarigara Strivensenski
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February 11, 2020
a phenomenal work, especially part 2, the part on psychology. the first part was skillful, but it was just analytic philosophy, and so had no empirical content. (but there was outstanding parts, especially the analyses of causation and probabilistic causation.) the second part is what got me. the author discusses ocd, schizophrenia--as well as the nature of emotion--and knocks it out of the park on several occasion, e.g. his analysis of emotions as egocentric beliefs (beliefs hewed to an egocentric map) and--this one got me--his distinction between structural and structure-internal mental illness. ahead of his time.
Neoclassical Piano
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September 9, 2019
gorgeous, some passages were positively divine. the second (psychological) part was much more interesting than the first (philosophical) part. i loved the 'intentions as egocentric judgments' analysis. but mainly the analyses of ocd, psychopathy, schizophreniz were what stood out.
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