Abstract

The first half of this careful little book defends the "analytic" interpretation of psychological science, and refutes "a priori" type arguments which would impose or eliminate certain theories in advance of science's proper estimate of their empirical usefulness. The criticism is almost always directed against the Gestalt school, for both its general conceptions of science and its particular theories. The second half, after refuting some rather unimpressive philosophical attacks upon psychoanalysis, goes on to state the latter's relevance for the philosophical problem of responsibility.--E. W.