| Autor: |
Michael McEachrane |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences ISBN: 9783030430658 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-43066-5_6 |
| Popis: |
This chapter is on the methodology and philosophy of psychology as a science. By reflecting on Jan Smedslund’s critique of the empirical research paradigm of scientific psychology as tending towards pseudo-empiricism and lacking sufficient grounding in conceptual analysis and definitions—the chapter investigates the relevance of meanings of words and reflecting on these to the practices and possibilities of psychology as a science. Specifically, the chapter investigates the role to scientific psychology of reflecting on the meanings of words (i.e., conceptual investigations or analyses); the need in psychology to distinguish conceptual from empirical investigations; the nature of the meanings of psychological terms and statements; and the method of analyzing the meanings of psychological terms and statements. The chapter ends by pointing to ways in which Jan Smedslund’s system of Psycho-logic importantly reveals the import to psychology of reflecting on the meanings of words—but misleads on the nature and implications of such reflections. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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