E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten
Gantt / Williams On Hijacking Science
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-06256-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
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Exploring the Nature and Consequences of Overreach in Psychology
E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-351-06256-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This book examines the origins, presence, and implications of scientistic thinking in psychology. Scientism, an intellectual overreaching embodying the claim that only knowledge attained by means of natural scientific methods counts as valid and valuable knowledge, increasingly dominates thinking and practice in psychology and is seldom acknowledged as anything other than standard scientific practice. This book explores scientistic thinking and details the limits in both role and reach of science in psychology. Thus, the critical essays in this book present an alternative perspective to the scholarly mainstreams of the discipline.
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Foreword: A "Science" of Psychology: The Enduring Aspiration Daniel N. Robinson 1. Introduction: Psychological Science or Psychological Scientism? Why Getting It Right Matters Richard N. Williams & Edwin E. Gantt 2. Hayek and Hempel on the Nature, Role, and Limitations of Science Richard N. Williams 3. Why Science Needs Intuition Lisa Osbeck 4. Scientism and Saturation: Evolutionary Psychology, Religious Experience, and Marion Edwin E. Gantt 5. Epistemology and the Boundaries between Phenomena and Conventions Daniel N. Robinson 6. Psychotherapy and Scientism: Two Problematic Responses and a Way Forward Brent D. Slife & Eric Ghelfi 7. Science and Society: Effects, Reactions, and a Call for Reformation Jeffrey S. Reber 8. Appreciating the Prescience of Wundt’s 1913 Essay: "Psychology’s Struggle for Existence" James T. Lamiell 9. Beyond Scientism: Reaches in Psychology Toward a Science of Consciousness Frederick J. Wertz
