Philosophical Psychology Session #3

Lecture 3 (of 12) 1/19/89  notes03

Paul E. Meehl.

Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science; Reichenbach’s contexts of discovery/justification; truth as meta-predicate; Skinner on theoretical constructs; theories of truth; Carnap; verisimilitude (begin).

[Meehl objected to trailing wire for a microphone and requested a wireless one. First session there had been a communication problem, so he put up with a wire (notice he doesn’t move about as freely as in later sessions). Second session the microphone was wireless. But for the third session there was only the hard-wired one again, and he is obviously angry about it throughout the session. Subsequently, he informed the audio/visual department that if they couldn’t provide a wireless microphone, there would be no further videotaping.]