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Realism and Psychology: Collected Essays: 30
Author(s): Nigel Mackay (Author), Agnes Petocz (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 17 Dec. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 936 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004188878
- ISBN-13: 9789004188877
Book Description
This volume is a collection of new, published and revised essays, providing a distinctive, thoroughgoing, realist approach to contemporary psychological theories, concepts, methods, and applications. The essays also offer critical analyses of antirealist trends both in and outside of mainstream psychology.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Mackay and Petocz have put together an impressive and formidable collection of papers that will undoubtedly do much to raise the profile of realist psychology.”
Viren Swami, University of Westminster
About the Author
Nigel Mackay, D.Phil. (1982), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of the monograph Motivation and Explanation (1989) on Freuds philosophy of science, and various papers on theory and method. Agnes Petocz, PhD. (1996) in Psychology, University of Sydney, is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Western Sydney. She has published on various topics in psychology and philosophy, and is author of Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism (CUP, 1999).
