A Suspicious Science

A Suspicious Science draws from history and anthropology to articulate an interdisciplinary multi-level form of psychology that may serve to orient the field. The book synthesizes debates in psychology and philosophy concerning methodology and the nature of explanation with debates about its practical context as a human science. Ultimately, it suggests psychology provides us myths and rituals that ground a particular sense of meaning and motivation in our lives.

Rami Gabriel is the co-author of The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition (2019) and the author of Why I Buy: Self, Taste, and Consumer Society in America (2013). He publishes research on the philosophy of psychology, affective neuroscience, and consciousness studies. Gabriel is Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia College Chicago.

Preface
Introduction
Part One
Chapter 1. How to fit the Mind in a Lab
Chapter 2. The Pragmatic Use of Metaphor
Chapter 3. Contemporary Empirical Psychology
Interlude Mythology, Belief, and Superstition
Part Two
Chapter 4. Popular Psychology
Chapter 5. Discursive uses
Chapter 6. Drugs and Agency
Chapter 7. Art and Reflexivity
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography