Gricean charity: The Gricean turn in psychology

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The methodological lessons Gricean charity gleans from psychologists' work in conversational pragmatics are outlined. It is argued that it is not the primary aim of Gricean charity to rationalize subject responses but rather to impose evidential requirements on psychological studies in order to gain a more correct picture of the way in which evidence is weighed, inferences drawn and choices made.

Charity, Pragmatics

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A disturbance of psychoanalytic memory: the case of John Rickman's three-person psychology

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John Rickman's conception of one-, two-, and three-person psychology has become distorted in psychoanalysis. Topics discussed include Rickman's original proposal for a number psychology, Michael Balint's distortion of Rickman, and Rickman's view of Freud.

Canada, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Criticism and interpretation, Psychoanalysis, Rickman, John, Balint, Michael

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Applied cognitive psychology and the "strong replacement" of epistemology by normative psychology

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The emergence of applied cognitive psychology (ACP) as a normative psychology is examined. Three nonstandard ways of understanding ACP as normative are discussed.

Heuristic, Epistemics, Heuristics (Psychology)

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