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Egon Albrecht-Lemke [Note 1] (19 May 1918 – 25 August 1944) was a German-Brazilian Luftwaffe fighter pilot and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II. Albrecht claimed 25 aerial victories, 10 over the Western Front and 15 over the Eastern Front.
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Logical positivism and Popper’s falsificationism Kuhn and scienti c revolutions fi Lakatos and Feyerabend: research programmes and anarchism
The sheer amount of information available to today’s psychology student, and the ease with which that information can be obtained, is greater than it has ever been in the past. Though this is no doubt a blessing, it is not without its dangers. In particular, it is easy for the student to become bogged down in a mass of facts and details with little...
The book, as mentioned above, grew out of my undergraduate teaching, and so is aimed at undergraduate psychology students, though I hope that postgraduate students would also nd something of value in it. I have tried to write the book as fi clearly as possible, but it is inevitable that some technical terms will feature in the text. Where these occ...
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The value of philosophical questions and critical thinking for understanding the history and philosophy of psychology. Four interrelated themes that summarize the main issues discussed in this chapter: multiple psychologies, reflexive historiography, intersubjective science, and critical thinking. Part 1.
Using clear and detailed case studies and drawing on up-to-date empirical research, it examines perception and action, the link between attention and consciousness, the modularity of mind, how we understand other minds, and the influence of language on thought, as well as the relationships among mind, brain, body, and world.
What are the primitive objects? What counts as evidence? What counts as an explanation? The history of psychology is a history of different answers to these questions, and with each shift, the philosophical understanding of psychology has become richer and more subtle.
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May 14, 2021 · This textbook provides an engrossing overview of contemporary debates in the philosophy of psychology, exploring the ways in which the interaction and collaboration between psychologists and...
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George Botterill and Peter Carruthers discuss these questions, defending a robust form of realism about the commitments of folk psychology and about the prospects for integrating those commitments into natural science.
