The Philosophy of Psychology

William T. O'Donohue is a licensed clinical psychologist, professor of psychology and adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Nevada, Reno, and a faculty member of the National Judicial College. He is widely recognized in the field for his proposed innovations in mental health service delivery, in treatment design and evaluation, and in knowledge of empirically supported cognitive behavioral therapies. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement for Behavior Therapy and served on the Board of Directors of this organization. Dr. O'Donohue has published over 50 books and 150 articles in scholarly journals and book chapters. For the past 14 years, he has been director of a free clinic that treats children who have been sexually abused and adults who have been sexually assaulted.

Introduction PART ONE: EPISTEMOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY Naturalism and the Abandonment of Normativity - Harvey Siegel Psychology, Naturalized Epistemology and Rationality - Harold I Brown Social Epistemology and Psychology - Steve Fuller Psychology of Science - Michael E Gorman Genetic Epistemology and Cognitive Psychology of Science - Richard F Kitchener PART TWO: BEHAVIORISM, PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY Behaviorism as Opposition to Cartesianism - Max Hocutt Quine's Behaviorism - Roger F Gibson Skinner's Theory of Theories - Richard F Kitchener Linguistic Behaviorism as a Philosophy of Empirical Science - Ullin T Place Skinner's Case for Radical Behaviorism - Richard Garrett Must Behavior Be Mechanistic? Modeling Nonmachines - Joseph F Rychlak PART THREE: COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY Computational Theories of Cognition - Herbert A Simon Troubles with Computationalism - Mark H Bickhard Toward a Naturalized Cognitive Science - C A Hooker A Framework for Cooperation between Philosophy and the Natural Sciences of Intelligent Systems Neurobehavioral Science, Neuropsychology and the Philosophy of Mind - Karl H Pribram Typical Emotions - Aaron Ben-Ze'ev [ITAL]`Folk Psychology' and Its Implications for Psychological Science Introduction - Ullin T Place The Falsity of Folk Theories - Nick Chater and Mike Oaksford Implications for Psychology and Philosophy Does Science Underwrite Our Folk Psychology? - Barry C Smith Folk Psychology from the Standpoint of Conceptual Analysis - Ullin T Place On the Necessary Survival of Folk Psychology - Graham Richards Folk Psychology and Its Implications for Cognitive Science - Elizabeth R Valentine Discussion PART FOUR: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY Is Psychoanalysis Viable? - Adolf Gr[um]unbaum The Value of Psychoanalytic Therapy - Edward Erwin A Question of Standards What Is an Irrational Belief? Rational-Emotive Therapy and Accounts of Rationality - William O'Donohue and Jason S Vass PART FIVE: ETHICS AND PSYCHOLOGY The Formation and Transformation of Values - Hugh Lacey and Barry Schwartz Prescriptions for Responsible Psychiatry - Joseph Agassi The Behavior Therapist's Dilemma - Jon Ringen Reflections on Autonomy, Informed Consent and Scientific Psychology Professional Codes of Ethics and Ongoing Moral Problems in Psychology - Karen Strohm Kitchener A Critical Examination of the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct - William O'Donohue and Richard Mangold

The Philosophy of Psychology...does more than review philosophical psychology as it exists today, but also tries to move the field in new directions. The last two sections bring philosohical reflections to issues in clinical psychology. The fourth section, Clinical Psychology and Philosophy, contains two articles on philosophical concerns about psychoanalysis - a traditional area - but breaks new ground with an article questioning the soundness of the concept of rationality underpinning rational-emotive psychotherapy. The final section, Ethics and Psychology, addresses a wide range of ethical issues in psychology, including psychology's implicit values and inconsistencies between scientific psychology's belief in determinism and its insistence on informed consent in therapy and experimentation. Of special interest to teachers of psychological practitioners will be two articles about the APA's code of ethics, one of which finds it seriously wanting, whereas the other finds it a good, if flawed, attempts to define professional "goodness". The Philosophy of Psychology is a good introduction to the field it surveys. Almost all the articles can be read by someone unfamiliar with the topics discussed, and varying points of view are well represented. It might well serve as an auxilliary text in graduate-level courses in history and systems of psychology, whereas specific chapters might be assigned to courses in ethics, cognitive science, or philosophy of mind' - Contemporary Psychology `The very wide-ranging nature of this book means that it should not only be of interest to those on courses devoted to the philosophy of psychology, but should also be relevant to courses on ethics, cognitive science and clinical psychology, at the least. One measure of a book's usefulness should be whether it has affected one's teaching. It certainly passes that test. I recommended it to my students' - Psychology Teaching Review