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Although I am in broad general agreement with Bunge’s aims and commentary on the state of psychology, I find much to criticize in detail in his paper. In general his description of the nature and practice of science today is too clean and idealized to be plausible; in particular his distinction between the way neuropsychology is conducted as a scientific discipline, compared to other branches of contemporary psychology in this regard, will not bear detailed scrutiny.
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Dodwell, P.C. (1985). Is Neuropsychology Something New?. In: Madsen, K.B., Mos, L.P. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2487-4_9
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