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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"philosophy of psychology"”.
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Non-Being and Memory: A Critique of Pure Difference in Derrida and Deleuze
The psychology philosophy split has restricted viable readings of today's psychological research. My project (within the philosophy of psychology) is to provide these readings. Specifically, in this dissertation I analyze the data and the interpretations of a large number of contemporary memory …
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Experimental Knowledge in Cognitive Neuroscience: Evidence, Errors, and Inference
This is a work in the epistemology of functional neuroimaging (fNI) and it applies the error-statistical (ES) philosophy to inferential problems in fNI to formulate and address these problems. This gives us a clear, accurate, and more complete understanding of what we can learn from fNI and how we …
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The Moral Psychology of Implicit Bias: Interpretations, Obligations, and Responsibilities
… been used to scientifically explain a variety of broad social phenomena (e.g. persisting inequality between various demographic groups). My dissertation is focused on the relationships between scientific characterizations of implicit bias, our moral responsibility for it, and how these accounts …
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Validity and Validation in Psychology
… attribute, and not something else? Within psychology the twin terms which are most often associated with measurement are ‘validity’ on the one hand and ‘validation’ on the other. Validity is roughly understood as good measurement, while validation denotes the processes or practices needed …
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The Therapist as Scientist: A Philosophical Appraisal of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), one of the most popular schools of contemporary psychotherapy, presents itself as "scientific" and "evidence-based", particularly in contrast with its predecessor, psychoanalysis. This scientific image has shaped CBT on a number of levels. For example, the …
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Beyond Enlightenment: The Evolution of Agency and the Modularity of the Mind in a Post-Darwinian World
<p>Working out of the social and philosophical revolutions from the Enlightenment, contemporary action theory has unwittingly inherited several Cartesian ideas regarding the human mind: that it is unified, rational, and transparent. As a result, we have for too long conceived of action as …
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Inherited Ontologies and the Relations between Philosophy of Mind and the Empirical Cognitive Sciences
A productive relationship between the philosophy of mind and the empirical cognitive sciences not only is possible, but also is pursued productively by practitioners from both sides. In the first two chapters, I consider two examples of sets of concepts (“folk psychology” and the “architecture of …