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Psychological Metaphysics (Paperback)
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Psychological Metaphysics (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Library Editions: Perception
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The research literature on causal attribution and social cognition
generally consists of many fascinating but fragmented and
superficial phenomena. These can only be understood as an organised
whole by elucidating the fundamental psychological assumptions on
which they depend. Originally published in 1993, Psychological
Metaphysics is an exploration of the most basic and important
assumptions in the psychological construction of reality, with the
aim of showing what they are, how they originate, and what they are
there for. Peter A. White proposes that people basically understand
causation in terms of stable, specific powers of things operating
to produce effects under suitable conditions. This underpins an
analysis of people's understanding of causal processes in the
physical word and of human action, which makes a radical break with
the Heiderian tradition. Psychological Metaphysics suggests that
causal attribution is in the service of the person's practical
concerns and any interest in accuracy or understanding is
subservient to this. A notion of regularity in the world is of no
more than minor importance in causal attribution, and social
cognition is not so much a matter of cognitive mechanisms or
processes but more of cultural ways of thinking imposed upon tacit,
unquestioned, universal assumptions. Psychological Metaphysics
incorporates not only research and theory in social cognition and
developmental psychology, but also philosophy and the history of
ideas. It will be challenging to everyone interested in how we try
to understand the world.
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