Robert M. Young Online Writings
The Writings of Professor Robert M. Young
'The Conceptual Foundations of the Human Sciences'
In this lecture I discuss why the human and clinical sciences are methodologically and philosophically on the defensive. I relate them both to physicalist and Darwinian paradigms of explanation and defend the autonomy of the human domain. It was given as the keynote address for the residential week of the distance learning students at the Shefield Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, 18 September 1998.