# Ben Recht on Meehl's Philosophical Psychology

DevFeed: [Ben Recht on Meehl's Philosophical Psychology](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ben-recht-on-meehl-s-philosophical-psychology-40506.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2024-07-27-1149/>)

Published: 2024-07-27T18:49:42Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jeremy Kun](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeremy-kun.md>)

Topics: [Data Science](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-science.md>), [Math and Logic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/math-and-logic.md>)

Tags: [blog-posts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-posts.md>), [mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mathematics.md>), [philosophy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/philosophy.md>), [science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/science.md>), [shortform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shortform.md>), [social-sciences](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/social-sciences.md>)

## AI overview

A review of Ben Recht's blog series on Paul Meehl's Philosophical Psychology, which examines philosophy of science, scientific debate, and weaknesses in statistical studies in the social sciences. The series also discusses alternatives to relying on conventional hypothesis testing, including historical experimental examples.

## Source excerpt

Ben Recht, a computer science professor at UC Berkeley, recently wrapped up a 3-month series of blog posts on Paul Meehl's "Philosophical Psychology." Recht has a table of contents for his blog series. It loosely tracks a set of lectures that Meehl gave in 1989 at the University of Minnesota. In it, he surveys of the philosophy of science, lays out a framework for scientific debate, and critiques scientific practice. Recht summarizes his arguments, simplifies the ideas, provides examples, and offers his own commentary, considering today's computerized world.