A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Conceptual Analysis and Psychology: An Overview

   • Timothy P. Racine, Kathleen L. Slaney

   Pages 1-9

3. Prologue: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology as a Critical Instrument for the Psychological Sciences

   • Peter M. S. Hacker

   Pages 10-27

4. Psychology’s Inescapable Need for Conceptual Clarification

   • Daniel D. Hutto

   Pages 28-50

5. Wittgenstein’s Method of Conceptual Investigation and Concept Formation in Psychology

   • Oskari Kuusela

   Pages 51-71

6. Pictures of the Soul

   • Joachim Schulte

   Pages 72-86

7. Aspect Seeing in Wittgenstein and in Psychology

   • Nicole Hausen, Michel ter Hark

   Pages 87-109

8. Parallels in the Foundations of Mathematics and Psychology

   • Meredith Williams

   Pages 110-129

9. Animal Minds: Philosophical and Scientific Aspects

   • Hans-Johann Glock

   Pages 130-152

10. Realism, but Not Empiricism: Wittgenstein versus Searle

    • Danièle Moyal-Sharrock

    Pages 153-171

11. Can a Robot Smile? Wittgenstein on Facial Expression

    • Diane Proudfoot

    Pages 172-194

12. A Return to ‘the Inner’ in Social Theory: Archer’s ‘Internal Conversation’

    • Wes Sharrock, Leonidas Tsilipakos

    Pages 195-213

13. Reducing the Effort in Effortful Control

    • Stuart G. Shanker, Devin M. Casenhiser

    Pages 214-232

14. The Concepts of Suicidology

    • Michael D. Maraun

    Pages 233-252

15. The Neuroscientific Case for a Representative Theory of Perception

    • John Preston, Severin Schroeder

    Pages 253-273

16. Terror Management, Meaning Maintenance, and the Concept of Psychological Meaning

    • Timothy P. Racine, Kathleen L. Slaney

    Pages 274-291

17. A Conceptual Investigation of Inferences Drawn from Infant Habituation Research

    • Michael A. Tissaw

    Pages 292-311

18. The Unconscious Theory in Modern Cognitivism

    • Alan Costall

    Pages 312-327

19. Back Matter

    Pages 329-332

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This edited volume includes contributions from internationally renowned experts in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. It applies his later philosophy to concrete issues pertaining to the integrity of scientific claims in a broad spectrum of research domains within contemporary psychology.

• cognitivism
• Habituation
• perception
• philosophy of psychology
• psychology

• Simon Fraser University, Canada

  Timothy P. Racine, Kathleen L. Slaney

Devin M. Casenhiser, University of Tennessee, USA Alan Costall, University of Portsmouth, UK Hans-Johann Glock, University of Zürich, Switzerland P. M. S. Hacker, St John's College, Oxford, UK Nicole Hausen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Daniel D. Hutto, University of Hertfordshire, UK Oskari Kuusela, University of East Anglia, UK Michael D. Maraun, Simon Fraser University, Canada Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, University of Hertfordshire, UK John Preston, University of Reading, UK Diane Proudfoot, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Severin Schroeder, University of Reading, UK Joachim Schulte, University of Zürich, Switzerland Stuart Shanker, York University, Canada Wes Sharrock, University of Manchester, UK Michel ter Hark, VU University, the Netherlands Michael A. Tissaw, State University of New York at Potsdam, USA Leonidas Tsilipakos, University of Manchester, UK Meredith Williams, Johns Hopkins University, USA

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