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This book applies a range of ideas about scientific discovery found in contemporary philosophy of science to psychology and related behavioral sciences. In doing so, it aims to advance our understanding of a host of important methodological ideas as they apply to those sciences. A philosophy of local scientific realism is adopted in favor of traditional accounts that are thought to apply to all sciences. As part of this philosophy, the implications of a commitment to philosophical naturalism are spelt out, and a correspondence theory of truth is defended by showing how it helps explain various features of scientific practice. The central chapter of the book presents a broad theory of scientific method that comprises the detection of empirical phenomena and their subsequent understanding by constructing explanatory theories through the use of abductive methods. This theory of scientific method is then used as a framework to reconstruct the well-known qualitative method of grounded theory, and to present a systematic perspective on clinical reasoning and case formulation. Relatedly, an abductive or explanationist understanding of methods is employed to evaluate the knowledge credenti

Who reads Method Matters in Psychology: Essays in Applied Philosophy of Science (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 45)?

Author

Brian D. Haig

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030010515

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Philosophy