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Theory of science for psychology: knowledge, everyday knowledge andscience; arguments, laws, theories, models and facts; explanation andunderstanding; functional and teleological explanations; reductionism,supervenience and strata; reasons and causes. Philosophy of science forpsychology: introduction - scientific methods and rationality; logicalpositivism and demarcation; problems with the standard view of science;demarcation - Popper; demarcation abandoned - Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend;alternatives to positivism 1 - hermeneutics, constructionism, rhetoric;problems of realism and relativism; alternatives to positivism 2 - scientificrealism and pragmatism. Sociology and psychology of science: ideology andsociology of knowledge; critical theory and the sociology of science; thestrong programme in the sociology of knowledge; the sociology of scientificpractice; and what about a psychology of science? Philosophy of mind:introduction - the nature of mind; the explanada - consciousness,intentionality, representation; the orthodoxy - the computational theory ofthe mind; the competition - eliminativism and connectionism; other views,same issues; against the mechanistic theories of mind - some alternatives.