Relations and Representations

Taylor & Francis

Relations and RepresentationsAn Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Psychological Science\nAuthor(s): John D. Greenwood\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Psychology Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781138838680, 978-1138838680\nSynopsis\nWhat is the nature of social psychological science? What does a realist approach to human behaviour offer? \n\nOriginally published in 1991, this lucid introduction to the philosophy of social psychological science takes a new and original approach to the subject. The author repudiates traditional empiricist and hermeneutical accounts, advancing instead a realist philosophy of social psychological science that maintains objectivity while at the same time stressing the social dimensions of mind and action.\n\nThe author provides novel perspectives on the problems and potential of those sciences concerned with human behaviours that are constituted as meaningful actions by their social relational, and representati.