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Orientation to Inquiry in a Reflective Professional Psychology
(September 1994)
Lisa L. Tsoi Hoshmand - Author
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This book approaches professional inquiry in psychology from a perspective that integrates research and practice and prepares students for the diversity of methods employed in the field. It examines a broad range of models and methods of inquiry in both research and practice and provides a framework for linking issues of knowledge to the special context of professional psychology.
Guided by a vision of psychology as a self-critical disciplin...(Read More) |
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Science, Paradox, and the Moebius Principle
(April 1994)
The Evolution of a "Transcultural" Approach to Wholeness
Steven M. Rosen - Author
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Science, Paradox, and the Moebius Principle confronts basic anomalies in the foundations of contemporary knowledge. Steven M. Rosen deals with paradoxes that call into question our conventional way of thinking about space, time, and the nature of human experience.
Rosen's contribution is unique in at least five respects:
1) He provides an unparalleled integration of modern theoretical scien...(Read More) |
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Scientific Nihilism
(March 1994)
On the Loss and Recovery of Physical Explanation
Daniel Athearn - Author
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“This book is stimulating and enjoyable to read because it is strikingly original and builds a unified thesis on the importance of providing narrative causal accounts in the full explanation of physical systems. The topic is of fundamental significance to physical science, philosophy of science, and to human understanding generally. It has become clear that more abstractions in the form of simulations, models, or physical laws do not, by thems...(Read More) |
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Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science
(January 1994)
Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life
Babette E. Babich - Author
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“The author succeeds in penetrating the cloud of suspicion, incomprehension, and distrust that for contemporary readers surrounds Nietzsche’s writing and shows how the most audacious provocateur or nineteenth-century German wissenschaftliche circles, can speak with real insight to our times about our own very contemporary philosophical crises.” — New Nietzsche Studies
"One c...(Read More) |
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How Reference Works
(August 1993)
Explanatory Models for Indexicals, Descriptions, and Opacity
Lawrence D. Roberts - Author
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"This is a book about how certain referring expressions in a natural language (English) manage to refer to objects in the world when used by speakers. Within the philosophy of language, the problem of reference has never been adequately solved. When viewed as a work in the philosophy of language, this book offers an interesting approach (if not a solution) to the problem of reference. However, the book's appeal is much broader than the philosophy...(Read More) |
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Knowledge, Evolution and Paradox
(August 1993)
The Ontology of Language
Koen DePryck - Author
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"It is already clear that postmodernism is an unsatisfactory view of the world: the skepticism, antifoundationalism, and distrust of any form of narrative or argument that has characterized this last phase of modernism cannot long resist its own corrosive critique. What view of the world will succeed postmodernism? To answer this question, it is necessary to take up several challenges abandoned along the way as metaphysical, insoluble in terms of...(Read More) |
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Evolutionary Ethics
(August 1993)
Matthew H. Nitecki - Editor
Doris V. Nitecki - Editor
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This volume analyzes the biological and philosophical disagreements in evolutionary ethics and points out difficulties with the interpretations.
The book is divided into four sections. The first is an historical introduction to the origin of evolutionary ethics, showing how different evolutionary ethics was a hundred years ago, and how distant Huxley is from most of us now. The second section argues for a sociobiological interpretation of e...(Read More) |
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Natural and Artificial Minds
(August 1993)
Robert G. Burton - Editor
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This book describes and explores six current approaches to the study of mind: the neuroscientific, the behavioral, the competence approach, the ecological, the phenomenological, and the computational. No other book in cognitive science covers such a broad range of research programs and topics in such a balanced fashion. The first chapter is a mini-history and philosophy of psychology which reviews some of the scientific developments and philosophic...(Read More) |
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Enlightenment to Enlightenment
(July 1993)
Intercritique of Science and Myth
Henri Atlan - Author
Lenn J. Schramm - Translator
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This book is a thorough and critical, comparative analysis of the logic of modern scientific thought and of traditional teachings generally referred to as mythological and mystical.
Different rationalities with different domains of interest and legitimacy exist, which should not be confused and cannot be unified in any theory of "Ultimate Reality." Atlan suggests they must coexist in practice, although each of them...(Read More) |
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Knowledge Without Expertise
(July 1993)
On the Status of Scientists
Raphael Sassower - Author
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This book critically examines the reliance of society on experts, specifically attacking the notion of the privilege of scientific expertise and defining the politics of this intellectual discourse. The extensive case material illustrates the consequences of claims of expert knowledge. Sassower questions the perception that scientific controversies are focused on epistemological concerns and demonstrates how the debates are often politically motiva...(Read More) |
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