Fragmentation in Contemporary Psychology: A Dialectical Solution  

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Drob, Sanford L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Humanistic Psychology vol. 43 no. 4 (2008), page 102-123.
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The author argues that the various paradigms in psychology emerge as a result of (combinations of) answers to fundamental problems in the philosophy of psychology. These are the problems of: (a) free will versus determinism, (b) materialism versus phenomenology, (c) reductionism versus emergent properties, (d) public versus private criteria for psycho-logical propositions, (e) individual versus the system as the basic unit of inquiry and description, (f) facts versus interpretations (hermeneutics) as the datum of psychology, and (g) knowledge versus unknowability as a basic methodological assumption. Psychologists have been mistaken in their assumption that the oppositions or antinomies represented in these problems must lead to mutually exclusive ideas. Instead, the polarities (e.g., free will and determinism) are better conceived dialectically as complementary, interdependent ideas; each idea only making sense by assuming the truth of its presumed contrary. When the complementarity of these contraries is recognized, the problem of multiple paradigms and factionalization in psychology is cast in a new light. Psychologists

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