PS390 Study Guide - Final Guide: Reductionism, Human Science, Intersubjectivity
Document Summary
Practicing the history of psych requires reflexive histoiography and relies on the disposition of critical presentism (reflects the attitude of time-centrism; interpreting the past from current perspective/in terms of its value for the present time) Practicing critical thinking about science leads to practicing an intersubjective science. Compatibility of scientific w theistic thought suggested that scientific advances and ideas frequently were embedded in religious, even theological views rather than cast as polar opposites. While early modern natural philosophers stressed the objectivity of scientific observation, many identified sources of bias and the subjective human limits of observation. Theme of a self-contained vs. a relational self revealed that natural philosophers disagreed about social nature of the psychological self w/i a social context of social management and individualism. Psychologists engaged in boundary maintenance over against philosophy, human-science psych, and public fascination w spiritualism and extrasensory phenomena to secure scientific legitimacy.
