'Know Thy Philosophical Self' -- The Need to Know Thy Philosophical Self -- The Hierarchical Method of Theory Analysis and Theory Development -- Ontology: The Groundwork and Foundation -- Ontology (Level A): The Question of Reality -- Realism and Relativism -- Why I Have Chosen Ontology as Our Starting Point: Cartesian and Non-Cartesian Points of View -- The Question of Reality -- Clinical Interlude -- Clarifying Some Philosophical Terminology -- The Ontological Level A Position to Be Adopted in This Work -- Ontology (Level B): Our Basic Position or Relation to Reality -- Two Major Paradigms: Cartesian Dualism versus 'Being-in-the-World' -- The Old Paradigm -- Phenomenology and the Beginnings of a New Paradigm -- General Epistemology: The Framework and Infrastructure -- General Epistemology (Level C): The Question of Knowledge in General -- Beginnings of the 'Beams-of-Light-through-Time' Model -- Beginnings of a General Epistemology Based on a Non-Dualistic Model -- Questions of Relativism Reconsidered -- A Non-Dualistic Model of Human Experience -- The Beam-of-Light Model -- The Phenomenology of Human Experience: Implications for the General Epistemology of the New Paradigm -- Validity (Level D): How Do We Validate or Assign Truth-Value to What We Know? -- Correspondence -- Coherence -- Pragmatics -- Toward a More Integrative General Theory of Validity -- An Example of a Hermeneutic Truth That Is Not Entirely Relativistic -- Field-Specific Epistemology: The Basic Layout and Design
Summary
"The book draws on theoretical and clinical approaches within the broad psychological field to show the relevance of certain philosophical issues. A number of case studies are presented, demonstrating to clinicians, theorists, and students the importance and inevitability of dealing with philosophy in pursuing their own work. In addition, the author's philosophical explications of various psychological theories provide a new tool with which to better understand and compare them."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-382) and index
