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Cross-scientific study and the complexity of psychology

Robert N. McCauley

pp. 165-172

Abstract

Woodward and Devonis wish to raise a number of developments in the philosophy of science over the past decade to the attention of historians of psychology. New models of science's structure and development may substantially alter historiography in their field. Eschewing both the logical empiricists, preoccupations with the axiomatization of theories in their rational reconstructions of scientific knowledge, and the Kuhnians' subsequent preoccupation with the radical incommensurability that scientific revolutions allegedly inject into science, philosophers such as Bechtel, Darden, Laudan, Maull, Nickles, and others have promoted analyses that focus variously on (1) construing scientific progress in terms of ongoing problem solving power, (2) examining the role of scientific discovery in the justification of scientific accomplishments, and (3) analyzing the character and complexity of cross-scientific relations (beyond mere intertheoretic considerations) that contribute to both problem solving and discovery. It is the third of these items that most occupies the authors' attention.

Publication details

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van Rappard Hans, van Strien Pieter, Mos Leendert, Baker William J (1993) Annals of theoretical psychology. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 165-172

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2986-6_11

Full citation:

McCauley Robert N. (1993) „Cross-scientific study and the complexity of psychology“, In: H. Van Rappard, P. Van Strien, L. Mos & W.J. Baker (eds.), Annals of theoretical psychology, Dordrecht, Springer, 165–172.