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Time, Space, and Number in Physics and Psychology (Psychology Revivals) (Paperback)
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Time, Space, and Number in Physics and Psychology (Psychology Revivals) (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Revivals
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The crux of the debate between proponents of behavioral psychology
and cognitive psychology focuses on the issue of accessibility.
Cognitivists believe that mental mechanisms and processes are
accessible, and that their inner workings can be inferred from
experimental observations of behavior. Behaviorists, on the
contrary, believe that mental processes and mechanisms are
inaccessible, and that nothing important about them can be inferred
from even the most cleverly designed empirical studies. One
argument that is repeatedly raised by cognitivists is that even
though mental processes are not directly accessible, this should
not be a barrier to unravelling the nature of the inner mental
processes and mechanisms. Inference works for other sciences, such
as physics, so why not psychology? If physics can work so
successfully with their kind of inaccessibility to make enormous
theoretical progress, then why not psychology? As with most
previous psychological debates, there is no "killer argument" that
can provide an unambiguous resolution. In its absence, author
William Uttal explores the differing properties of physical and
psychological time, space, and mathematics before coming to the
conclusion that there are major discrepancies between the
properties of the respective subject matters that make the analogy
of comparable inaccessibilities a false one.
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