On Hijacking Science: Exploring the Nature and Consequences of Overreach in Psychology (Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138478814 ISBN 13: 9781138478817

Verlag: Routledge, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138478814
• ISBN 13: 9781138478817
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
• Herausgeber: Gantt Edwin E., Williams Richard N.
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