Mechanism as philosophical foundation
June 22, 2006 - 10:05am — Pat Williams
I'm doing my best to understand contextualism and why it's considered by many, especially in this community, to be the appropriate philosophical foundation for psychology. It seems that the main alternative contender is mechanism. In order to better understand the former, I want to better understand the latter. So can anyone direct me to good references in which mechanism as the appropriate philosophical foundation for psychology, or for science more generally, is argued intelligently and sympathetically? Short of that, anything that does a thorough job of explaining the position would be welcome.
Thanks,
Pat Williams
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a few readings
Hi Pat,
Here are some readings I use in the "contextualism vs. mechanism" section of my Skinner's Behaviorism course that you might find useful. Several of them are a series of replies and commentaries to a single article or two, and can be quite instructive for illustrating the differences between contextualistic and mechanistic approaches to psychology.
thanks for references on mechanism
Eric,
This list of references will surely keep me busy. Thanks very sincerely.
Best wishes,
Pat