Wittgenstein's Problem and the Methods of Psychology: How ‘Grammar Depends on Facts’

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 463-479

  Jost, John T ^a   Gustafson, Donald F ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

conceptual analysis; construct validity theory; philosophy of psychology; psychological measurement; Wittgenstein

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542371918     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354398084002     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Baker, G.P., & Hacker, P. M. S. (1982). The grammar of psychology: Wittgenstein's ‘Bemerkungen über die Philosophie der Psychologie’. Language and Communication, 2, 222-244.
2. Bloor, D.(1983). Wittgenstein: A social theory of knowledge. New York: Columbia University Press.
3. Cioffi, F.(1984). When do empirical methods bypass ‘the problems which trouble us’? Philosophy, 59, 11-28.
4. Coulter, J.(1979). The social construction of mind. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield.
5. Geach, P. T.(Ed.) (1988). Wittgenstein's lectures on Philosophical Psychology 1946-47. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
6. Gergen, K.J.(1985). The social constructionist movement in modern psychology. American Psychologist, 40, 266-275.
7. Gustafson, D.F.(1979). ‘Pain’, grammar, and physicalism. In D. F. Gustafson & B. L. Tapscott (Eds.), Body, mind, and method (pp. 149-166). Boston, MA: D. Reidel.
8. Gustafson, D.F.(1984). Wittgenstein and a causal view of intentional action. Philosophical Investigations, 7, 225-243.
9. Gustafson, D.F.(1995). Belief in pain. Consciousness and Cognition, 4, 323-345.
10. Hacking, I.(1982, 1 April). Wittgenstein the psychologist. New York Review of Books, pp. 43-45.
11. Harré, R.(1988). Wittgenstein and artificial intelligence. Philosophical Psychology, 1, 105-115.
12. Jost, J.T.(1995). Toward a Wittgensteinian social psychology of human development. Theory & Psychology, 5, 5-25.
13. Jost, J.T., & Hardin, C.D. (1996). The practical turn in psychology: Marx and Wittgenstein as social materialists. Theory & Psychology, 6, 385-393.
14. Jost, J.T., & Thompson, E.P. (1997, May). An empirical critique of social dominance theory from a system justification perspective. Presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.
15. Louch, A.R.(1966). Explanation and human action. Berkeley: University of California Press.
16. Maraun, M.(1998). Measurement as a normative practice: Implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for measurement in psychology. Theory & Psychology, 8, 435-461.
17. Moscovici, S.(1988). Notes towards a description of social representations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 18, 211-250.
18. Newman, F., & Holzman, L. (1996). Unscientific psychology: A cultural-performatory approach to understanding human life. New York: Praeger.
19. Pratto, F., Sidanius, J., Stallworth, L.M., & Malle, B.F. (1994). Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 741-763.
20. Seligman, M. E. P.(1991). Learned optimism. New York: Knopf.
21. Stern, D.G.(1991). Models of memory: Wittgenstein and cognitive science. Philosophical Psychology, 4, 203-218.
22. Taylor, S.E., & Brown, J.D. (1988). Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health. Psychological Bulletin, 103, 193-210.
23. Williams, M.(1985). Wittgenstein's rejection of scientific psychology. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 15, 203-223.
24. Wittgenstein, L.(1953). Philosophical investigations. New York: Macmillan.
25. Wittgenstein, L.(1978). Remarks on the foundations of mathematics (G. von Wright, R. Rhees, & G. Anscombe, Eds.). Oxford: Blackwell.
26. Wittgenstein, L.(1990). Unpublished manuscript (115, p. 73), cited in M. Ter Hark (1990), Beyond the inner and the outer. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
27. Wittgenstein, L.(1993). Philosophical occasions, 1912-1951 (J. Klagge & A. Nordmann, Eds.). Cambridge, MA: Hackett.