William Meehan
10 Funston Avenue
The Presidio
San Francisco,, CA 94129
United States
415-401-7283
wmmeehan@sbcglobal.net
Curriculum Vitae:
Disciplines:
History of Early Modern Europe
Clinical Psychology
Recent Scholarly Activity:
My overarching project is a history of the concept of agency in Modern Western Philosophy and Psychology. As part of this project I am planning a series of journal articles on the treatment of agency by major philosophers and psychologists. The first of these, on the philosophy of Spinoza, has been published. I am currently working on the second article, on David Hume. Articles on later philosophers and psychologists are planned.
Recent Publications:
See "Examples of Current Work", below, for links to Pdf versions of items marked by an asterisk.
Meehan, W. (2010). Discourse, Narrative and Identity [Review of the book Narratives of Identity and Place]. Psyc CRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology, (55), 29, No Pagination Specified
Meehan, W. (2009)*. Partem Totius Naturae Esse: Spinoza's Alternatve to the Mutual Incomprehension of Physicalism and Mentalism in Psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 29, (1), 47-59
Meehan, W. (2009). Silly Robot, Ethics are for Humans (Aren't they?) [Review of the book, Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong]. PsycCritiques -- Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books 54 (25), No pagination specified
Meehan, W. (2009)* Truth and consequences: Epistemology and Ontology in Contemporary Psychology [Review of the book Psychology's Interpretive Turn: The Search for Truth and Agency in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology]. Humana.Mente, 11
Bush, M. & Meehan, W. (Submitted). Should supportive measures be made an explicit part of psychoanalytic technique? International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Other Activities:
Meehan, W. (2010)* Foreshadowing Natural selection: Hume and the limit of Lockean atomism. Conference presentation (poster) at the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA
Meehan, W. (2010)* Theological roots of psychological and natural philosophical discourse about free will. Presented at the Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA Div. 24) Miami Florida, February 27, 2010
Meehan, W. & Stiver D. J. (2009)*. The origins of secular psychology: Hume and the naturalization of Moral Philosophy. Conference presentation (poster) at the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario
Meehan, W. (2008) Spinoza and Contradictions in Contemporary Psychology. Presented at the Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA Div. 24) Miami Florida, February 22, 2008.
Examples of Current Work:
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