DISCUSSION - [EXPLANATION] IS EXPLANATION BETTER

Authors
Citation
Vg. Hardcastle, DISCUSSION - [EXPLANATION] IS EXPLANATION BETTER, Philosophy of science, 64(1), 1997, pp. 154-160
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
History & Philosophy of Sciences","History & Philosophy of Sciences
Journal title
ISSN journal
00318248
Volume
64
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
154 - 160
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-8248(1997)64:1<154:D-[IEB>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Robert Wilson (1994) maintains that many interesting and fundamental a spects of psychology are non-individualistic because large chunks of p sychology depend upon organisms being deeply embedded in some environm ent, I disagree and present one version of narrow content that allows enough reference to the environment to meet any wide challenge. I argu e that most psychologists are already this sort of narrow content theo rist and that these narrow content explanations of psychological pheno mena meet Wilson's criteria for being a good explanation better than a ny wide explanation of the same event.