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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Ch.1. Introduction: the explanation of events
1.1 The nomological model of scientific explanation
1.2 Some further remarks on the nomological model

Ch.2. Explaining behaviour
2.1 Empathic understanding according to W. Dilthey
2.2 Some critical remarks on empathic understanding
2.3 The heuristic value of empathic understanding
2.4 The correct account of action explanation
2.5 Functional explanations of actions
2.6 Ideal-typical explanation
2.7 Introspection

Ch.3. The testability of behavioural explanations
3.1 The logical connection argument in its classical form
3.2 Von Wright’s view of the logical connection argument
3.3 Rationality in behavioural explanations
3.4 The empirical character of psychological mini-theories
3.5 Conclusion

Ch.4. The phenomenological approach
4.1 Phenomenology as descriptive psychology
4.2 The constitution of objective reality
4.3 The phenomenology of consciousness and of the other person
4.4 Conclusion about the contribution of phenomenology

Ch.5. Rules and practical inferences
5.1 Explaining rule governed behaviour
5.2 Winch on understanding action
5.3 Practical inferences as explanatory arguments

Ch.6. Meaning and hermeneutics
6.1 Interpreting rule governed behaviour
6.2 Dilthey’s hermeneutics
6.3 Philosophical hermeneutics according to Gadamer

Ch.7. Critical theory
7.1 The social context of science
7.2 Methodology: empirical method and the nomological approach
7.3 Methodology: science and values
7.4 Critical psychology

Ch.8. The two approaches to the science of psychology
8.1 Mentalism and behaviourism
8.2 Scientific behaviourism
8.3 The defence of scientific behaviourism
8.4 On the prospects of mentalism
8.5 On Turing’s test
8.6 Cognitive behaviourism
8.7 A consideration of some objections to behaviourism

Ch.9. Explanatory schemata in psychology
9.1 Some instruments of epistemological analysis and their relation to psychology
9.2 The concept of an explanatory schema
9.3 The logic of explanatory schemata
9.4 The origin of explanatory schemata

Ch.10. ‘Intelligence’, its early history: an exercise
10.1 The behaviourist orientation of Binet’s psychology of intelligence
10.2 The Binet–Stern research program of intelligence
10.3 Galton’s explanatory schema of intelligence

Ch.11. Concluding remarks

Notes
References
Summary
Samenvatting
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Zoekwoorden
psychologie, wetenschapsfilosofie, gedragsverklaring, hermeneutiek, fenomenologie, behaviorisme, cognitieve psychologie, methodologie, epistemologie, proefschrift, universiteit van amsterdam, filosofische psychologie
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