From: British Journal of Psychology | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: Wheeler, Michael | COPYRIGHT 1998 British Psychological Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Mark H. Brickhard and Loren Terveen. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 1996. Pp. xii + 384. 160.00 Dutch Guilders. ISBN: 0 444 82520 7.

The great ethologist Konrad Lorenz once wrote that, in order to keep young, every research scientist should discard one pet hypothesis every day, before breakfast. One might think that Lorenz asked too much. But there is a real sense in which the two books that we are about to consider - The Representational and the Presentational by Benny Shanon, and...