Ecological Psychology in Context: James Gibson, Roger Barker, and the Legacy of William James's Radical Empiricism

Table of contents

• Ecological Psychology in Context: James Gibson, Roger Barker, and the Legacy of William James's Radical Empiricism i
• Title Page iii
• Contents ix
• Foreword - Resources for Ecological Psychology xiii
• Preface xv
• Acknowledgments xviii
• Introduction xxi
• I - Ecological Theory and Philosophical Realism 1
• Prologue: Intimations of an Ecological Psychology 3
• 1 - William James's Radical Empiricism: a Foundation for Ecological Psychology 13
• 2 - Edwin B. Holt and Philosophical Behaviorism 59
• II - The Ecological Approach and Radical Empiricism 103
• Prologue: Three Generations of Psychologists 105
• 3 - Perceiver-Environment Relations 109
• 4 - Relations and Direct Perception 143
• 5 - The Stream of Experience and Possible Knowledge 173
• III - Ecological Psychology and the Psychological Field 201
• Prologue: Field Theory and Collective Social Processes 203
• 6 - Gestalt Psychology and the Ecological Approach 209
• 7 - Ecobehavioral Science: the Ecological Approach of Roger Barker 235
• 8 - Ecological Psychology and Ecobehavioral Science: Toward a Synthesis 273
• 9 - Ecological Knowledge and Sociocultural Processes 327
• IV - Conclusion 371
• 10 - The Scope of Ecological Psychology 373
• References 397
• Author Index 417
• Subject Index 423

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