In:Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology
John-Michael Kuczynski
[Advances in Consciousness Research 87] 2012
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 20 September 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.87.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.87.toc
Table of contents
Part I
1. Introduction: Empiricism and scientism
2. A dogmatic statement of the problems with empiricism
3. Empiricism’s blindness to the non-spatiotemporal
4. Wittgenstein on meaning: Part 1 – the picture-theory
5. Wittgenstein on meaning: Part 2 – meaning as use
6. Some consequences of the empiricism-driven conflation of analytic with introspective knowledge
7. Subpersonal mentation
8. Empiricist conceptions of causation and explanation
9. Skepticism about induction and about perception
Part II
10. Emotion as belief
11. Desires, intentions, and values
12. Actions vs. reactions, desires vs. urges
13. Moral and aesthetic nihilism as embodiments of false theories of rationality and selfhood
14. The cognitive and characterological consequences of linguistic competence
15. Rationality and internal conflict
16. Sociopathy, psychopathy, and criminality
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