The Psychology of Scientific Inquiry

ISBN-13: 9783030314484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 132 str.

Aaro Toomela

Spis treści

Chapter1: The problem. Psychology: A science yet to become science.- Chapter2: Science is based on certain assumptions.- Chapter3: Doubts, assumptions, and social sciences and psychology today.- Chapter4: Causality, understanding and explanation: Philosophical roots.- Chapter5: Causality, understanding and explanation: Fundamentally limited views.- Chapter6: Causality, understanding and explanation: Back to the roots.- Chapter7: Theory of causality and modern mainstream psychology.- Chapter8: What next? Back to the future.

O autorze

​Aaro Toomela is a Professor of Cultural and Neuropsychology at the Tallinn University, Estonia. His research interests cover all the main fields of psychology—cognitive, developmental, cultural, social, personality, biological, evolutionary, and applied—as well as philosophy, history and methodology of psychology. He has authored scientific papers in all these fields.