Realism and psychology: collected essays

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IntroductionPart 1: The Nature and Context of Realism1. Realism and the state of theory in psychology.N. Mackay & A. Petocz2. Essays in realism: Analysis and discussion.N. Mackay & A. Petocz3. Anderson's development of (situational) realism and its bearing on psychology today.F. J. HibberdPart 2: From Philosophy to Psychology4. The knower and the known.J. Anderson5. The concept of attitude.J. R. Maze6. Drives and consummatory actions.J. R. Maze7. Maze's direct realism and the character of cognition.J. MichellPart 3: Critiques and Developments8. "Out there", not "in here": A Realist account of conceptsT. McMullen9. Representationism, realism and the redundancy of 'mentalese'.J. R. Maze10. Constructivism, direct realism and the nature of error.A. Rantzen11. Concept, class, and category in the tradition of Aristotle.J. P. Sutcliffe12. Normal science, pathological science and psychometrics.J. Michell13. Social constructionism, deconstructionism and some requirements of discourse.J. R. Maze14. Reply to Gergen.F. J. Hibberd15. On some accounts of meaning and their problems.N. Mackay16. Why psychology has neglected symbolism and what a realist approach can offer.A. Petocz17. A new psychology-the metaphysical and the mundane.P. Bell18. The place of qualitative research in psychology.J. Michell19. Science, meaning and the scientist-practitioner model of treatment.A. Petocz20. Addressing mental plurality: justification, objections and logical requirements of strongly partitive accounts of mind.S. Boag21. Rezoning pleasure: Drives and affects in personality theory.D. McIlwain22. A realist account of mental causation.S. Medlow23. Drive theory reconsidered (again!).G. Newbery