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?The motivation for this volume is simple. For a variety of reasons, clinical psychologists have long shown considerable interest in the philosophy of science.� When logical positivism gained currency in the 1930s, psychologists were among the most avid readers of what these philosophers had to say about science. Part of the critique of Skinner�s radical behaviorism and thus behavior therapy was that it relied on, and thus was logically dependent on, the truth of logical positivism�a claim decisively refuted both historically and logically by L.D. Smith (1986) in his important Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the Alliance.� ?Typham this is the title: Clinical Psychology and the Philosophy of Science