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A cherished fantasy of this reviewer has been that a comprehensive philosophical orientation to psychological issues and systems would partially liberate the field from compulsive empiricism on the one hand and cleanse away some of the sheer slop of unbridled speculation on the other. The thirty persons represented in this volume contribute philosophically oriented essays, published here for the first time, dealing with three major areas: application of broad principles of scientific inquiry to psychology; examination of some systems of psychology; and exploration of special issues encountered in empirical and theoretical psychological research, including perception, social interaction, interpretation in measurement, information theory, and unpredictability in human behavior. In this attempt to effect a rapprochement between scientific psychology and the philosophy of science, the editors strove to clarify epistemological and methodological problems of experimental inquiry and theory construction. Apparently my fantasy of such an integration was shared. Unfortunately, a close reading of those chapters most related to psychoanalysis and a less intense perusal of the remaining chapters once again demonstrate the rarity with which fantasies are realized. In brief, although almost all of the contributions are meritorious—and some even quite profound, such as Razran's 47-page discussion of evolutionary psychology in terms of levels of learning—one is left with the sense that the individual chapters leave so much untouched, or in some instances, are so idiosyncratic, that they cannot, as a whole, qualify as definitive statements. Therefore, the encyclopedic quality suggested by the size of the volume is not borne out. Taken, however, as individual selections, a distinctly favorable impression is made. Some very excellent persons (e.g., Jean Piaget, Morton Deutsch, Mary Henle, Charles Morris, Karl Pribram, Anatol Rapoport have employed the scholarship and creativity expect