Realism and psychology : collected essays / edited by Nigel Mackay, Agnes Petocz.

Boston : Brill, [2011], ©2011.

xix, 911 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 The Nature and Context of Realism -- 1.Realism and the state of theory in psychology / A. Petocz -- 2.Essays in realism: Analysis and discussion / A. Petocz -- 3.Anderson's development of (situational) realism and its bearing on psychology today / F.J. Hibberd -- pt. 2 From Philosophy to Psychology -- 4.The knower and the known / J. Anderson -- 5.The concept of attitude / J. R. Maze -- 6.Drives and consummatory actions / J. R. Maze -- 7.Maze's direct realism and the character of cognition / J. Michell -- pt. 3 Critiques and Developments -- 8."Out there", not "in here": A Realist account of concepts / T. McMullen -- 9.Representationism, realism and the redundancy of 'mentalese' / J. R. Maze -- 10.Constructivism, direct realism and the nature of error / A. Rantzen -- 11.Concept, class, and category in the tradition of Aristotle / J. P. Sutcliffe -- 12.Normal science, pathological science and psychometrics / J. Michell -- 13.Social constructionism, deconstructionism and some requirements of discourse / J. R. Maze -- 14.Reply to Gergen / F.J. Hibberd -- 15.On some accounts of meaning and their problems / N. Mackay -- 16.Why psychology has neglected symbolism and what a realist approach can offer / A. Petocz -- 17.A new psychology-the metaphysical and the mundane / P. Bell -- 18.The place of qualitative research in psychology / J. Michell -- 19.Science, meaning and the scientist-practitioner model of treatment / A. Petocz -- 20.Addressing mental plurality: justification, objections and logical requirements of strongly partitive accounts of mind / S. Boag -- 21.Rezoning pleasure: Drives and affects in personality theory / D. McIlwain -- 22.A realist account of mental causation / S. Medlow -- 23.Drive theory reconsidered (again!) / G. Newbery.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.