1st Edition
A New Look at New Realism The Psychology and Philosophy of E. B. Holt
By Eric Charles
Copyright 2012
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume brings to the attention of contemporary readers a tradition of psychological thought that has received little attention over the last century. Psychology's history has been unimaginatively presented as a fight between behaviorists and mentalists. A third alternative, the New Realism, which cuts through that dichotomy, has been lost. "The New Realism" was indeed once new. This volume... Read more
1: E. B. Holt to William James, 1905; I: The Specific Response and the Problem of Illusory Experiences; 2: Observing Mental Processes; 3: Holt’s Realism: New Reasons for Behavior Analysis; 4: Realism and Illusion: An Explication of Holt’s Approach; 5: When Is an Illusion an Illusion? An Examination of Contrast Information in Grouping and Grid Phenomena; II: Holt’s Legacy and Holt as Legacy; 6: William James’s Radical Empiricism: Did E. B. Holt Get It Right?; 7: A Dislocation of Consciousness; 8: Ecological Realism as a Reaction to New Realism: Holt’s to Gibson; 9: Holt’s “Recession of the Stimulus” and the Emergence of the “Situation” In Psychology; III: Beyond Representation; 10: Interview with an Old New Realist; 11: Against Representationalism: James Gibson’s Secret Intellectual Debt to E. B. Holt; 12: James J. Gibson to Edward Reed, 1979
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Eric Charles
