Methods of theoritical psychology/ Andre Kukla

The Enterprise of Theoretical Psychology
1.1 Theoretical Psychology Defined
1.2 Empiricism and Rationalism in the History of Psychology
1.3 Plan of the Book
Basic Tools
2.1 Primitive Terms
2.2 Sets
2.3 Sentences and Terms
2.4 Propositions and Concepts
2.5 Necessary and Contingent Propositions
2.6 Logical Relations among Propositions
2.7 Deductive Arguments in Propositional Logic
2.8 Conditional and Indirect Proof
2.9 Deductive Arguments in Quantifier Logic
Theories and Data
3.1 Data
3.2 Laws of Nature
3.3 Theoretical Terms, Theoretical Statements, and Theories
3.4 The Instrumentalist Account of Theoretical Entities
3.5 The Realist Account of Theoretical Entities
Constructing and Evaluating Theories
4.1 The Construction of Scientific Theories
4.2 The Interplay between Theory Construction and Theory
Evaluation
4.3 Truth
4.4 Generality
4.5 Other Theoretical Virtues
Deriving and Testing Empirical Hypotheses
5.1 The Varieties of Empirical Projects
5.2 Empirical Confirmation: The Hypothetico-Deductive
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5.3 Empirical Confirmation: The Bayesian Account
5.4 Empirical Disconfirmation
5.5 The Cycle of Empirical Testing and Theoretical
Accommodation
5.6 Prediction as a Theoretical Activity
5.7 Weak AI as a Style of Theoretical Psychology
Theoretical Amplification
6.1 Amplification Defined
6.2 Internal Inconsistency
6.3 Intertheoretical Entailment
6.4 Intertheoretical Inconsistency
6.5 Intertheoretical Complementarity
6.6 Independence Arguments
6.7 Theoretical Confirmation (Postdiction)
6.8 Consistency Arguments
6.9 Theoretical Disconfirmation
Theoretical Simplification
7.1 Theoretical Preference
7.2 Syntactic Simplicity
7.3 Rc-Simplicity
7.4 Rm-Simplicity
7.5 Metaphysical Simplicity
7.6 Epistemic Simplicity
7.7 Two Types of Simplification
7.8 The Structure of Theoretical Reduction
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Necessary Propositions
8.1 Distinguishing Necessary from Contingent Prepositions
8.2 The Too-Strong Argument for Innateness: A Detailed Case
Study
8.3 Discovering New Necessary Truths
8.4 Strong AI
9 Conceptual Issues
9.1 The Construction of Conceptual Schemes
9.2 Russell's Paradox
9.3 Conceptual Innovation
9.4 How Not to Evaluate Conceptual Schemes
9.5 Minor Criteria for Conceptual Evaluation
9.6 Expressive Power
9.7 Instant Accrual of Data
9.8 Creation of Data
10 The Contingent A Priori
10.1 The Need for Presuppositions
10.2 Grounded Presuppositions
10.3 Underground Presuppositions
10.4 Discovery and Evaluation of Underground Presuppositions
10.5 Grounded Presuppositions in Psychology