On Hijacking Science

Exploring the Nature and Consequences of Overreach in Psychology
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-85614-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 194 g

Reihe: Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

This book examines the origins, presence, and implications of scientistic thinking in psychology. Scientism embodies the claim that only knowledge attained by means of natural scientific methods counts as valid and valuable. This perspective increasingly dominates thinking and practice in psychology and is seldom acknowledged as anything other than standard scientific practice. This book seeks to make this intellectual movement explicit and to detail the very real limits in both role and reach of science in psychology. The critical chapters in this volume present an alternative perspective to the scholarly mainstreams of the discipline and will be of value to scholars and students interested in the scientific status and the philosophical bases of psychology as a discipline.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gantt, Edwin E.

Williams, Richard N.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Science, Scientism, and Psychology Richard N. Williams and Edwin E. Gantt 1. Epistemology and the Boundaries between Phenomena and Conventions Daniel N. Robinson 2. Hayek and Hempel on the Nature, Role, and Limitations of Science Richard N. Williams 3. On Scientism in Psychology: Some Observations of Historical Relevance James T. Lamiell 4. Why Science Needs Intuition Lisa M. Osbeck 5. Scientism and Saturation: Evolutionary Psychology, Human Experience, and the Phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion Edwin E. Gantt 6. Psychotherapy and Scientism Brent D. Slife, Eric A. Ghelfi, and Sheilagh T. Fox 7. Science and Society: Effects, Reactions, and a Call for Reformation Jeffrey S. Reber 8. Beyond Scientism: Reaches in Psychology Toward a Science of Consciousness Frederick J. Wertz

Über Autor(innen)

Edwin E. Gantt is Associate Professor of Psychology, Brigham Young University. He has formal training in phenomenology and hermeneutics, and has published broadly in the theory and philosophy of psychology.

Richard N. Williams is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Wheatley Institution, Brigham Young University. He has published on topics related to scientism, human agency, and theoretical psychology.