Statistical procedures and the justification of knowledge in psychological science.

The purpose of this article is to describe a relatively new movement in the history and philosophy of science, naturalism, a form of pragmatism emphasizing that methodological principles are empirical statements. Thus, methodological principles must…

FIRST PARAGRAPHS To my knowledge, very little has been written on the educational justification of PE activities for the last decade. Since PE now does have a place on the National Curriculum, albeit arguably a minor one, the justification issue…

This paper integrates familiar psychological and philosophical concepts in order to present a conception of free will as a set of psychological capacities that is consistent with current psychological theory and common moral intuitions. The author…

Current theories of organizational learning that emphasize knowledge creation and transformation assume, but fail to problematize, the justification of bdief in new knowledge, although they admit it is an essential enabling condition for the…

In this paper it is argued, Against alston and armstrong, That an empirical proposition may be incorrigible for a person, In the sense that the person cannot be mistaken in believing that proposition to be true, Even though the person does not know…

This chapter will seek to explore some of Husserls ideas about consciousness that are helpful to contemporary research. A descriptive phenomenological psychological research method was founded by Amedeo Giorgi (Giorgi, 1985) which is based on…

Throughout the history of psychology, the path of transforming the physical (muscle movements, verbal behavior, or physiological changes) into the mental has been fraught with difficulty. Over the decades, psychologists have risen to the challenge…

The growth of research on consciousness creates an opportunity to enrich psychological practice. This paper suggests that a more even balance between third- and first-person perspectives may now be sought, and that this will make possible more…

The powerful combination of genomics and bioinformatics is providing a wealth of information about Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the aetiological agent of human tuberculosis, that will facilitate the conception and development of new therapies. The…

In this article we discuss how incentive motivations and task demands affect performance. We present a three-factor framework that suggests that performance is determined from the interaction of global incentives, local incentives, and the…