Paradigms in Theory Construction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: L'Abate, Luciano (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Philosophy and science.; General Psychology.; Philosophy of Science.

Paradigms in Theory Construction Luciano L’Abate, editor Without the framework of the paradigm supporting layers of theories,models, and data, our concept of science, and its shared mode of scholarly thought, would not exist. The concept is readily understood. But how did we get there? Paradigms in...

Table of Contents:

• Paradigms in Science and Theory Construction
• Paradigms in Science: A Historical Perspective
• Evolving Paradigms: Retrospective and Prospection
• Anthropology
• Parallel Paradigms of Artists and Authors
• Economics
• Education
• Sociology
• The Biopsychosocial Paradigm
• Interbehaviorism
• Reflections on Personality Systematics and an Unified Clinical Science
• The Intersubjective-narrative Approach versus the Relational-generational one
• Constructivism
• Materialism
• Explicating and Exemplifying  Empicist and Cognitivist Paradigms in the study of Human Learning
• Humanism and Behaviorism
• Existentialism
• Information Processing
• Reductionism
• Produced and Spontaneous Emergent Interactionism
• The Emergence of Reason, Intelligence, and Language in Humans and Animals
• Essentialism
• Criteria and Processes in Paradigm Selection.