Psychological Metaphysics

Download Psychological Metaphysics full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Psychological Metaphysics ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Psychological Metaphysics

Psychological Metaphysics
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 337
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781134889242
ISBN-13 : 1134889240
Rating : 4/5 (240 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Psychological Metaphysics by : Peter White

Download or read book Psychological Metaphysics written by Peter White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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 White proposes that people basically understand causation in terms of stable, special powers of things operating to produce effects under suitable conditions. This underpins an analysis of people's understanding of causal processes in the physical world, and of human action. In making 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. Indeed, a notion of regularity in the world is of no more than minor importance, and social cognition is not a matter of cognitive mechanisms or processes but of cultural ways of thinking imposed upon tacit, unquestioned, universal assumptions.


Psychological Metaphysics Related Books

Psychological Metaphysics
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Peter White
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-26 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The research literature on causal attribution and social cognition generally consists of many fascinating but fragmented and superficial phenomena. These can on
Philosophy of Mind
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: George Trumbull Ladd
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1905 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Metaphysics
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Aristotle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Laura Castelli presents a new translation of the tenth book (Iota) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with a comprehensive commentary. Castelli's commentary h
Personal Agency
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: E. J. Lowe
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-04 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Personal Agency consists of two parts. In Part II, a radically libertarian theory of action is defended which combines aspects of agent causalism and volitionis
The Metaphysics of Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Keith Hossack
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-20 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Keith Hossack presents an original approach to philosophy founded on the thesis that knowledge is an absolutely fundamental relation. He takes knowledge as the