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This major text provides the first comprehensive anthology of the key topics arising in the philosophy of psychology. Bringing together internationally renowned authors, including Herb Simon, Karl Pribram, Joseph Rychlak, Ullin T Place and Adolf Gr[um]unbaum, this volume offers a stimulating and informative addition to contemporary debate.

With the cognitive revolution of the 1960s, there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of the philosophical assumptions and implications of psychology. Several significant themes, such as the foundations of knowledge, behaviourism, rationality, emotion and cognitive science span both philosophy and psychology, and are covered here along with a wide range of issues in the fields of folk psychology, clinical psychology, neurophysiology and professional ethics.

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• Introduction
• Part 1 Epistemology, Psychology of Science and The Foundations Of Psychology
• Naturalism and the Abandonment of Normativity
• Psychology, Naturalized Epistemology and Rationality
• Social Epistemology and Psychology
• Psychology of Science
• Genetic Epistemology and Cognitive Psychology of Science
• Part 2 Behaviorism, Psychology and Philosophy
• Behaviorism as Opposition to Cartesianism
• Quine's Behaviorism
• Skinner's Theory of Theories
• Linguistic Behaviorism as a Philosophy of Empirical Science
• Skinner's Case for Radical Behaviorism
• Must Behavior Be Mechanistic? Modeling Nonmachines
• Part 3 Cognitive Science and Psychology
• Computational Theories of Cognition
• Troubles with Computationalism
• Toward a Naturalized Cognitive Science
• A Framework for Cooperation between Philosophy and the Natural Sciences of Intelligent Systems
• Neurobehavioral Science, Neuropsychology and the Philosophy of Mind
• Typical Emotions
• [ITAL]'Folk Psychology' and Its Implications for Psychological Science
• Introduction
• The Falsity of Folk Theories
• Implications for Psychology and Philosophy
• Does Science Underwrite Our Folk Psychology?
• Folk Psychology from the Standpoint of Conceptual Analysis
• On the Necessary Survival of Folk Psychology
• Folk Psychology and Its Implications for Cognitive Science
• Discussion
• Part 4 Clinical Psychology and Philosophy
• Is Psychoanalysis Viable?
• The Value of Psychoanalytic Therapy
• A Question of Standards
• What Is an Irrational Belief? Rational-Emotive Therapy and Accounts of Rationality
• Part 5 Ethics and Psychology
• The Formation and Transformation of Values
• Prescriptions for Responsible Psychiatry
• The Behavior Therapist's Dilemma
• Reflections on Autonomy, Informed Consent and Scientific Psychology
• Professional Codes of Ethics and Ongoing Moral Problems in Psychology
• A Critical Examination of the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct

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CHOICE Review

O'Donohue (Univ. of Nevada, Reno) and Kitchener (Colorado State Univ.) hold that a survey of the philosophy of psychology should cover issues in the "epistemology, metaphysics and ethics of psychology." Such an approach is said to distinguish this work from most others in this area, which tend to narrowly focus on "issues related to cognitive psychology and cognitive science." The desired breadth is accomplished by offering five sections. The one on clinical psychology is the weakest, containing just three papers, two of them on psychoanalysis. The introduction to the section does not introduce the reader to the range of issues in this area. The ethics section offers a more representative fare of topics. One of the longer parts is devoted to a discussion of different forms of behaviorism. The editors justify its inclusion by claiming its relevance to contemporary issues. The longest section is on philosophical issues dealing with cognitive science and contains papers on computationalism, biological models of the mind, emotions, and an extended subsection on folk psychology. Though the book begins with a section on epistemological issues in the foundations of psychology, those who do not accept the editors' view about what should be surveyed in this field may find their favorite area underrepresented. Upper-division undergraduates and above. G. Pech; College of St. Catherine

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William O′Donohue is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research interests focus on philosophy of psychology, behaviour therapy and human sexuality.

Richard F Kitchener is Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He writes on issues in philosophy of science, epistemology and philosophical aspects of psychology.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Nick Chater University of Oxford

Mike Oakesford University of Warwick

Ullin T Place Thirsk

Graham Richards Tunbridge Wells

Barry Smith Birkbeck College University of London

Elizabeth Valentine Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London