Hane Htut Maung's Articles

  • The Ontology of the Psychoses
    A Metaphysical Dialogue
  • Freud's Unconscious: A Concept or a Rhetorical Device?
    There is a commonly-held view amongst contemporary scientists that Freud's theories are unscientific. This essay argues that Freud's theories are no less scientific than other theories in science, and that their dismissal is not only unjustified, but also impractical in psychological theories of the mind.
  • Stamp Collecting in Science
    It is an often-held view that physics is the one elementary science that deals with the basic laws of nature, whereas all other sciences are merely involved in the arbitrary classification of phenomena that are, in principle, reducible to these basic laws. This essay argues against this viewpoint, and proposes that other sciences can also be considered to be elementary in their own right.
  • In Defence of van Fraassen
    A Critique of Superempirical Virtues as Indicators of Objective Truth in the Selection of Scientific Theories
  • The Darwin of the Mind
    To what Extent does Freud's Theory of the Psychical Apparatus Reflect his Evolutionary Thinking?

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