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Theoretical Psychology

What Is It and Who Needs It?

Daniel N. Robinson

OXFORD UNIVERSITY, dan.robinson{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk

It remains unclear as to just what a `theoretical psychology' might be or might claim as a mission. This is distinct from various and ad hoc psychological theories (e.g. Hullian learning theory, the opponent-process theory of color vision) which admit at least in principle of empirical tests of adequacy. The example of theoretical physics is offered heuristically to test the different senses of `theoretical psychology'.

Key Words: central theories • civic development • culture of grant-getting • mainstream • metaphysics • morality • theoretical psychology

Theory & Psychology, Vol. 17, No. 2, 187-198 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0959354307075042
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