Thinking Off Your Feet: How
Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy
In the second part of the paper, the author develops a new version of informational teleosemantics, drawing partly on
empirical psychology, and partly on philosophical considerations.
From a cognitive psychology perspective, classification is a fundamental cognitive function of the brain, and the process of assigning a stimulus to a particular social category is generally considered an automatic process in
empirical psychology research (Smith & DeCoster, 2000).
This leads him to the view that
empirical psychology might be 'virtue's demise' (163).
At least in the first place, it brackets out other areas of doctrine apart from theological anthropology, and brackets out
empirical psychology, focusing down on the metaphysics of the human person with which
empirical psychology is intertwined.
The first three chapters cover these early developments, while the second section focuses on 19th-century German experimental psychology and
empirical psychology in tradition of William James.
In that respect economics is quite like another broad and seemingly unrelated academic field,
empirical psychology. That has also unexpectedly helped me understand how and why people make decisions, and in turn how to sell to them more effectively.
Can an
empirical psychology be drawn from Husserl's phenomenology?
As yet, however, the
empirical psychology of religion has remained largely shaped within the Christian tradition and, to a lesser extent, within the Jewish tradition.
Two of the best examples are Roland Borgards's 'Kopf ab', on the discussion surrounding the invention of the guillotine and the question of knowledge regarding the pain of those executed, and Harald Neumeyer's 'Unkalkulierbar unbewusst: Zur Seele des Verbrechers um 1800', a reading of the interaction between criminal justice and
empirical psychology. Both pieces integrate literary texts into their argument (Brentano's Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schonen Annerl, and Schiller's Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre).
This in turn will allow us to take a Jamesian look at some contemporary approaches to healthy-mindedness in
empirical psychology.
It is the business of transcendental philosophy to explore what characterizes a subjective perspective, not to attempt to explain any facts causally or ontically, as does
empirical psychology.