Selected Philosophical and Methodological Papers

In addition to a career as a psychologist, Paul Meehl has contributed to philosophical literature with his analytical papers on such topics as the mind-body problem, freedom and determinism, psychoanalytical explanation, theory appraisal, moral aspects of insanity and the law, psychoanalytical explanation, theory appraisal, moral aspects of insanity and the law, precognitive telepathy and other methodological matters. A co-founder of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, with Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars, the papers Meehl wrote with them, as well as his treatment of hypothetical constructs and intervening variables, are included in this collection. Also included is "Psychological Determinism and Human Rationality - A Psychologist's Reactions to Professor Karl Popper's `Of Clouds and Clocks'".