The light of nature pursued, Volume 1 (2nd ed.).

Tucker, A. W.

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“…Richards (1846) specified that hope must be built on trust and faith rather than "vain" philosophical inquiries. The more psychological accounts include Reynolds (1656), Nurse (1697), and Tucker (1805). APA style would have a comma after each name when there is a string of authors in parentheses.…”

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The Psychology of Hope: A Diagnostic and Prescriptive Account

Scioli

2020

Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope

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In this chapter, I review psychology's contributions to the study of hope. To close potential gaps in this interdisciplinary volume, I include work in psychiatry and nursing. The nearly 400-year history of psychological reflections on hope reveals extended stretches of neglect, alternating with brief flashes of interest. Shifting scientific paradigms are partly to blame. However, I suggest that the greatest challenge for investigators seeking scientific consensus on the topic may be cultural and sociopolitical. I begin with a review of the most significant writings and research on hope, dating back to the seventeenth century. I examine goal-related approaches in greater depth, due to their strong influence on the field of psychology. The latter half of this chapter is more critical and prescriptive. For a deeper commentary, I rely on Markus's (Meas Interdisciplinary Res Perspect 6:54-77, 2008) distinction between constructs and concepts as well as Danziger's (Naming the mind: How psychology found its language. Sage Publications, 1997) observation on how psychology found its lexicon. This middle, diagnostic section includes a review of philosophy of science criteria for evaluating theories. I transition to general prescriptions for achieving a better understanding of hope, organized around Bacon's "four idols" of the mind, and add specific suggestions for future research. I conclude with a summary of recent work within our hope lab.

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The Psychology of Hope: A Diagnostic and Prescriptive Account

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“…Comment came to the spirited defence of his cousin in a separate booklet (Tucker, 1763b). Light of Nature ’s first two parts (comprising five books) were published in 1768, under the name of Edward Search, but without editorial contributions from Cuthbert Comment.…”

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“…Tucker’s death hardly bothered the outside world. The Annual Register , which had not reviewed Tucker’s work in 1768, failed to mention him when it listed the notable deaths of 1774. It recorded the death of the town clerk for the City of London, who died a few days before Tucker; and then it listed the death of a Lincolnshire co-heiress, who died a week later.…”

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Abraham Tucker as an 18th-century William James: Stream of consciousness, role of examples, and the importance of writing

Billig

2011

Theory & Psychology

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“…. 27 In short, motives are final causes, not motor causes. If there is a science of mind in which motives figure as causes, it is not on a par with the new mechanistic science of matter.…”

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Free Will: Responsibility and ‘Free Will’

Vesey¹

1988

R. Inst. Philos. lect. ser.

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As a rule we treat people as responsible for what they do. We admonish them if they behave badly, praise them if they do well. We punish people. And we reward them.There are exceptions, of course. For example, we do not punish someone for doing something he has been compelled to do, perhaps by having a gun in his back. And we even recognize such a thing as psychological compulsion, as in the case of kleptomania.

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The light of nature pursued, Volume 1 (2nd ed.).

Cited by 7 publications

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The Psychology of Hope: A Diagnostic and Prescriptive Account

The Psychology of Hope: A Diagnostic and Prescriptive Account

Abraham Tucker as an 18th-century William James: Stream of consciousness, role of examples, and the importance of writing

Free Will: Responsibility and ‘Free Will’

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