Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Philosophy and Metatheory of Psychology

   1. Keynote Address

      1. Unifying Psychology: Its Preconditions

         • Adriaan D. de Groot

         Pages 1-25

   2. Theoretical Alternatives

      1. A Phenomenological Vision for Psychology

         • Amedeo Giorgi

         Pages 27-36

      2. For a Materialist Psychology

         • Charles W. Tolman

         Pages 37-49

      3. Realities and their Relationships

         • Kenneth J. Gergen

         Pages 51-62

      4. The Myth of Mind and the Mistake of Psychology

         • John Shotter

         Pages 63-70

      5. Hermeneutics of Explanation: Or, if Science is Theoretical why Isn’t Psychology?

         • Leendert P. Mos, Casey P. Boodt

         Pages 71-84

      6. Do Mental Events Exist?

         • Fred Vollmer

         Pages 85-96

      7. What Distinguishes Lay Persons’ Psychological Explanations from those of Psychologists?

         • Henderikus J. Stam

         Pages 97-106

      8. Theory of Action in Psychology: A Narrative Perspective

         • Guy A. M. Widdershoven

         Pages 107-112

      9. Probability and Meaning: A Division in Behavioral Cognition Dividing Behavioral Science

         • Enno Schwanenberg

         Pages 113-120

      10. Naturalism and Intentionality

          • H. Looren de Jong

          Pages 121-131

      11. A Hermeneutical Analysis of the Social-Psychological

          • Casey P. Boodt, Leendert P. Mos

          Pages 133-144

      12. ‘Doing Theory’ in Psychology: Feminist Re-Actions

          • Mary Gergen

          Pages 145-153

      13. Münchhausen-Objectivity: A Bootstrap-Conception of Objectivity as a Methodological Norm

          • Adri Smaling

          Pages 155-165

      14. Psychology and the Problem of Verisimilitude

          • Morris L. Shames

          Pages 167-175

      15. Identifying the Properties of Linguistically Expressed Experience: Empirical Induction or Intuition of Essences?

          • T. Cameron Wild, Don Schopflocher, Don Kuiken

          Pages 177-183

      16. The Scientist Who Mistook His Object for a Method, or: Can We Make a Non-Classical Psychology?

          • Arno L. Goudsmit

          Pages 185-192

3. Theoretical Psychology

   1. Essential Unpredictability

      • Paul van Geert

      Pages 193-209

   2. John Dewey’s Reconstruction of the Reflex-Arc Concept and its Relevance for Bowlby’s Attachment Theory

      • Gert J. J. Biesta, Siebren Miedema, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn

      Pages 211-220

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the third biennial conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, held in Arnhem, the Netherlands, April 17-21, 1989. Fifty-six papers were presented during the four days of the conference, including an invited address by Professor A. D. de Groot, and seven papers composing two plenary sessions, four on the con­ tribution of history to theory, and three on theoretical alternatives for contem­ porary psychology. Of these, 46 papers are presented in the proceedings; all of which suffered editorial changes and, with the exception of the invited ad­ dress, were required to meet a 15 page restriction on length. The editors gratefully acknowledge John Mills, Leendert Mos, and Hank Starn for their invaluable editorial assistance. The papers included here are presented without discussants' commen­ taries. (Over 125 psychologists participated at the conference.) While the papers are representative of the scope of topics covered at the conference, the hours of formal and informal discussions must, unfortunately, be left to the reader's imagination. We encourage the reader to attend one of our next conferences, planned biennially, and alternately, in North America (1991) and Europe (1993).

• Emotion
• Intuition
• cognition
• objectivity
• philosophy of science
• probability
• psychology
• science

• Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  Wm J. Baker

• Department of Psychology, Plymouth Polytechnic, Plymouth Devon, England

  Michael E. Hyland

• Department of Psychonomics, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  René Hezewijk

• Department of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

  Sybe Terwee

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