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If your find this post interesting I recommend looking into critical psychology (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C…).
These people though long and hard about these problems in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and there's a few people who still work within this tradition.
I have found these two books to be good introductions to the topic:
- "Psychology, Sub…
If your find this post interesting I recommend looking into critical psychology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_psychology).
These people though long and hard about these problems in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and there's a few people who still work within this tradition.
I have found these two books to be good introductions to the topic:
- "Psychology, Subjectivity, and Society: An Introduction to German Critical Psychology" by Charles Tolman
- "Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject: Selected Writings of Klaus Holzkamp" edited by Ernst Schraube and Ute Osterkamp.
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Adam, congratulations for your beautiful and elegant post! I agree with @rabchi and I believe that you have ran into an intersection of psychology and philosophy, regarding the epistemology of the field. How can psychologists actually know what they are aiming for since the very notion of a "psychology" is a fiction like any of the other examples you have mentioned?
Of course I'm not the first to suggest this: my main reference is the work of Richard Rorty. In his book Philosphy and the Mirror of Nature, he departs from a single presupposition: that the idea of "mind" has guided science for a long time, but it should be reconsidered as something that resembles more of a metaphor (or a fiction) perpetrated by a cartesian tradition than the actual basis that should be used by scientific enquiries. He then proceeds to point problems with behaviorist or materialist methods to "identify" what could be these mental activities.
TLDR: philosophy could be an useful approach to redefine strong links for psychology.
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