Nigel Mackay, D.Phil. (1982), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of the monograph Motivation and Explanation (1989) on Freud’s philosophy of science, and various papers on theory and method.Agnes Petocz, PhD. (1996) in Psychology, University of Sydney, is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Western Sydney. She has published on various topics in psychology and philosophy, and is author of Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism (CUP, 1999).

• IntroductionPart 1: The Nature and Context of Realism1. Realism and the state of theory in psychology.N. Mackay & A. Petocz2. Essays in realism: Analysis and discussion.N. Mackay & A. Petocz3. Anderson’s development of (situational) realism and its bearing on psychology today.F. J. HibberdPart 2: From Philosophy to Psychology4. The knower and the known.J. Anderson5. The concept of attitude.J. R. Maze6. Drives and consummatory actions.J. R. Maze7. Maze's direct realism and the character of cognition.J. MichellPart 3: Critiques and Developments8. “Out there”, not “in here”: A Realist account of conceptsT. McMullen9. Representationism, realism and the redundancy of ‘mentalese’.J. R. Maze10. Constructivism, direct realism and the nature of error.A. Rantzen11. Concept, class, and category in the tradition of Aristotle.J. P. Sutcliffe12. Normal science, pathological science and psychometrics.J. Michell13. Social constructionism, deconstructionism and some requirements of discourse.J. R. Maze14. Reply to Gergen.F. J. Hibberd15. On some accounts of meaning and their problems.N. Mackay16. Why psychology has neglected symbolism and what a realist approach can offer.A. Petocz17. A new psychology—the metaphysical and the mundane.P. Bell18. The place of qualitative research in psychology.J. Michell19. Science, meaning and the scientist-practitioner model of treatment.A. Petocz20. Addressing mental plurality: justification, objections and logical requirements of strongly partitive accounts of mind.S. Boag21. Rezoning pleasure: Drives and affects in personality theory.D. McIlwain22. A realist account of mental causation.S. Medlow23. Drive theory reconsidered (again!).G. Newbery

"Mackay and Petocz have put together an impressive and formidable collection of papers that will undoubtedly do much to raise the profile of realist psychology."Viren Swami, University of Westminster

Nigel Mackay, D.Phil. (1982), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of the monograph Motivation and Explanation (1989) on Freud’s philosophy of science, and various papers on theory and method.Agnes Petocz, PhD. (1996) in Psychology, University of Sydney, is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Western Sydney. She has published on various topics in psychology and philosophy, and is author of Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism (CUP, 1999).

• IntroductionPart 1: The Nature and Context of Realism1. Realism and the state of theory in psychology.N. Mackay & A. Petocz2. Essays in realism: Analysis and discussion.N. Mackay & A. Petocz3. Anderson’s development of (situational) realism and its bearing on psychology today.F. J. HibberdPart 2: From Philosophy to Psychology4. The knower and the known.J. Anderson5. The concept of attitude.J. R. Maze6. Drives and consummatory actions.J. R. Maze7. Maze's direct realism and the character of cognition.J. MichellPart 3: Critiques and Developments8. “Out there”, not “in here”: A Realist account of conceptsT. McMullen9. Representationism, realism and the redundancy of ‘mentalese’.J. R. Maze10. Constructivism, direct realism and the nature of error.A. Rantzen11. Concept, class, and category in the tradition of Aristotle.J. P. Sutcliffe12. Normal science, pathological science and psychometrics.J. Michell13. Social constructionism, deconstructionism and some requirements of discourse.J. R. Maze14. Reply to Gergen.F. J. Hibberd15. On some accounts of meaning and their problems.N. Mackay16. Why psychology has neglected symbolism and what a realist approach can offer.A. Petocz17. A new psychology—the metaphysical and the mundane.P. Bell18. The place of qualitative research in psychology.J. Michell19. Science, meaning and the scientist-practitioner model of treatment.A. Petocz20. Addressing mental plurality: justification, objections and logical requirements of strongly partitive accounts of mind.S. Boag21. Rezoning pleasure: Drives and affects in personality theory.D. McIlwain22. A realist account of mental causation.S. Medlow23. Drive theory reconsidered (again!).G. Newbery

"Mackay and Petocz have put together an impressive and formidable collection of papers that will undoubtedly do much to raise the profile of realist psychology."Viren Swami, University of Westminster

Nigel Mackay, D.Phil. (1982), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of the monograph Motivation and Explanation (1989) on Freud’s philosophy of science, and various papers on theory and method.Agnes Petocz, PhD. (1996) in Psychology, University of Sydney, is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Western Sydney. She has published on various topics in psychology and philosophy, and is author of Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism (CUP, 1999).

• IntroductionPart 1: The Nature and Context of Realism1. Realism and the state of theory in psychology.N. Mackay & A. Petocz2. Essays in realism: Analysis and discussion.N. Mackay & A. Petocz3. Anderson’s development of (situational) realism and its bearing on psychology today.F. J. HibberdPart 2: From Philosophy to Psychology4. The knower and the known.J. Anderson5. The concept of attitude.J. R. Maze6. Drives and consummatory actions.J. R. Maze7. Maze's direct realism and the character of cognition.J. MichellPart 3: Critiques and Developments8. “Out there”, not “in here”: A Realist account of conceptsT. McMullen9. Representationism, realism and the redundancy of ‘mentalese’.J. R. Maze10. Constructivism, direct realism and the nature of error.A. Rantzen11. Concept, class, and category in the tradition of Aristotle.J. P. Sutcliffe12. Normal science, pathological science and psychometrics.J. Michell13. Social constructionism, deconstructionism and some requirements of discourse.J. R. Maze14. Reply to Gergen.F. J. Hibberd15. On some accounts of meaning and their problems.N. Mackay16. Why psychology has neglected symbolism and what a realist approach can offer.A. Petocz17. A new psychology—the metaphysical and the mundane.P. Bell18. The place of qualitative research in psychology.J. Michell19. Science, meaning and the scientist-practitioner model of treatment.A. Petocz20. Addressing mental plurality: justification, objections and logical requirements of strongly partitive accounts of mind.S. Boag21. Rezoning pleasure: Drives and affects in personality theory.D. McIlwain22. A realist account of mental causation.S. Medlow23. Drive theory reconsidered (again!).G. Newbery

"Mackay and Petocz have put together an impressive and formidable collection of papers that will undoubtedly do much to raise the profile of realist psychology."Viren Swami, University of Westminster