Respect for Thought

This book explores and provides an overview of the Norwegian psychologist Jan Smedslund's life work on Psycho-logic. His contributions to science have been radical not only in challenging the empirical foundation of psychology, but also in seeking to develop a viable alternative. This book brings together various reflections on his key contributions from the 1960s to the present day.

Chapter 1.Editorial Introduction.- Part I: Smedslund's work in historical perspective.- Chapter 2. A Pre-history of my Present Position.- Chapter 3. A Place for Persons: The Formal Systems of Smedslund and Ossorio.- Chapter 4. The concept of Correlation in adults comes of age.- 5. The Socrates of Modern Psychology: A Historical View of Smedslund's Common Sense Perspective.- Part II: Psychology as science; concepts and epistemology.- Chapter 6. Meanings of Words and the Possibilities of Psychology: Reflections on Jan Smedslund's Psycho-logic.- Chapter 7. The Case for Psychological Quietism; Wittgensteinian propaedeutics in Smedslund's writings.- Chapter 8. The Linguistic Fore-structure of Psychological Explanation.- Chapter 9. Jan Smedslund and Psychologic; The Problem of psychologism and the nature of language.- Chapter 10. Can Common Sense Change?Psycho-logic, Synthetic thinking and the Challenge of Changing Language.- Chapter 11. How to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater; Abduction is the solution to pseudo-empiricism.- Chapter 12. A priori Afterthoughts; Continuing the Dialogue on Psycho-logic.- Part III: Psychology as science; Research extensions.- Chapter 13. Neuro-Ornamentation in Psychological Research.- Chapter 14. Experimental Psychology and Distortions of Common Sense.- Chapter 15. Extending Smedslund's psycho-logic system into a social theory.- Chapter 16. Smedslund and The Psychological Style of Reasoning.- Chapter 17. Wittgenstein's revenge: How semantic algorithms can help survey research escape Smedslund's labyrinth.- Part IV: Psychology as practice.- 18. Professional Practice without Empirical Evidence: The Psycho-Logic of Trust.- Chapter 19. Psychotherapy: An Illusion That Works.- Chapter 20. Bricoleurs and Qualitative Theory-Building Research: Responses to Responsiveness.- Chapter 21. Working with Stuckness in psychotherapy; Bringing together the Bricoleur-model and Pluralistic Practices.- Chapter 22. The Pragmatic status of Psychoanalytic theory; A Plea for Thought-models.