Philosophies of Knowledge and Mind

(3 Credits)

Philosophy of Science. Differences over epistemology – the nature of knowledge and how we come to possess it – are part and parcel of debates over clinical theory and research methodology, whether it is the claimed superiority of behaviorism based on positivist views or the claimed superiority of relational psychodynamic approaches based on constructivist accounts of knowledge. This course will consider selected topics and controversies in philosophy of science and their application to debates over the nature of clinical theory and research.