Fight the power: The limits of empiricism and the costs of positivistic rigor

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-36

  Indick, William ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dialectic; Empiricism; Evolutionary psychology; Moral psychology; Positivism; Psychology and philosophy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPIRICISM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EMPIRICISM; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MORALS; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0036355263     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: 19401019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223980209604135     Document Type: Article

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