A critical review of C.H. Vanderwolf's provocative critique of mentalism in psychology, and his proposal for a psychology as a science of brain and behavior (`Brain, Behavior, and Mind: What Do We Know and What Can We Know?', 1998). Vanderwolf's critique of mentalism is an indictment of the discipline since its inception, and serves as a basis for reflection on psychology as a human science; as neither a biological nor a mentalistic science.
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