nam a22 c 4500 aicr.87/538008272 nljbp 250625015250.9 cr ||||||||||| 241217s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2012009871 9789027273857 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp BF311 150.1 23 JMR bicssc PSY008000 bisacsh Kuczynski, John-Michael author Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology John-Michael Kuczynski Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (viii, 477 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Advances in Consciousness Research 1381-589X 87 Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Introduction -- 2. A dogmatic statement of the problems with empiricism -- 3. Empiricism’s blindness to the non-spatiotemporal -- 4. Wittgenstein on meaning -- 5. Wittgenstein on meaning -- 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 -- 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 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 one’s 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. 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) Provided by publisher. Cognition and language Cognitive psychology Semantics Kuczynski, John-Michael author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027213532 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.87 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027273857