Selected Philosophical and Methodological Papers - Hardcover

Meehl, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816618550 ISBN 13: 9780816618552

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1991

Synopsis

In addition to a career as a psychologist, Paul Meehl has contributed to philosophical literature with his analytical papers on such topics as the mind-body problem, freedom and determinism, psychoanalytical explanation, theory appraisal, moral aspects of insanity and the law, psychoanalytical explanation, theory appraisal, moral aspects of insanity and the law, precognitive telepathy and other methodological matters. A co-founder of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, with Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars, the papers Meehl wrote with them, as well as his treatment of hypothetical constructs and intervening variables, are included in this collection. Also included is "Psychological Determinism and Human Rationality - A Psychologist's Reactions to Professor Karl Popper's `Of Clouds and Clocks'".

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About the Author

Paul E. Meehl was Regents’ Professor of Psychology and a professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He was also a practicing clinical psychotherapist, a former president of the American Psychological Association, and the author of Clinical versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence, also published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816618550
• ISBN 13: 9780816618552
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308