No scientific theory can expect to explain everything even within a restricted purview. But it
should be able to point in new directions, to redefine its subject matter (at least implicitly), to …

Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular
introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology. in a new chapter …

In this paper I will argue that a profile of the pseudo-sciences can be gained from the
scientific pretensions of the pseudo-scientist. These pretensions provide two yardsticks …

Goldberg uses the questions posed by self psychology as point of entry to a thoughtful
consideration of issues with which every clinician wrestles: the scientific status analysis, the …

Drawing on ideas from Charles Sanders Peirce, George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke, and
Mikhail Bakhtin, this work focuses on the centrality of the social act in describing and …

Erich Fromm has long been out of fashion.'Although Fromm was a lifelong critic of capitalist
society as well as the figure chiefly responsible for the Frankfurt Institute's integration of Marx …

Indian intellectuals have been concerned about the complex links between religion, caste
and gender, especially in the formation of social science ideas and practices. The mental …

Argues that the research methodology that Freud employed and on the basis of which he
took his theoretical claims to be scientifically warranted was flawed. Requirements of a good …

Discusses the relation between realism, relativism, and subjectivism in psychoanalytic
interpretations of patient narratives and how different interpretations of such narratives may …

Adolf Grünbaum was born on May 15, 1923 in Cologne, Germany. He received his BA from
Wesleyan University in 1943 with high distinction in mathematics and philosophy, his MS in …