On Hijacking Science | Exploring the Nature and Consequences of Overreach in Psychology

Edwin E. Gantt (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1138478814 / ISBN 13: 9781138478817

Editore: Routledge, 2018

On Hijacking Science | Exploring the Nature and Consequences of Overreach in Psychology | Edwin E. Gantt (u. a.) | Buch | Englisch | 2018 | Routledge | EAN 9781138478817 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 128429540

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore:

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.

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Titolo: On Hijacking Science | Exploring the Nature ...
Casa editrice: Routledge
Data di pubblicazione: 2018
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu