Cognitivism and the Problem of Scientific Psychology
This article is about the problem of scientific statute of psychology. Its proposal is to evaluate in what extension cognitivism solved historical objections to the possibility of a scientific psychology. Based on an evaluation of classical texts of the “cognitive revolution”, it concludes that this...
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| description | This article is about the problem of scientific statute of psychology. Its proposal is to evaluate in what extension cognitivism solved historical objections to the possibility of a scientific psychology. Based on an evaluation of classical texts of the “cognitive revolution”, it concludes that this approach presented a philosophical project of psychological science that solved most of the ontological and epistemological endemic problems of the discipline, like the one of non quantitative nature of psychological object, the subject and object simultaneity condition, the supposed non-existence of own object and the impossibility of psychological phenomenon direct observation. However, cognitivism ignored or worsened the problems about the possibility of some level of human autonomy and of the psychological explanation complexity. Despite its evident advances, cognitivism still doesn’t get full accomplishment of the project of ontological, epistemological and methodological fundamentation of a psychology completed adhered to modern science.
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| spelling | doaj.art-e30f8cc01d3a46809568bc770fd1ad1e2023-10-11T20:31:54ZengUniversidade Presbiteriana MackenziePsicologia1516-36871980-69062010-07-01122233253Cognitivism and the Problem of Scientific PsychologyGustavo Arja Castañon0Universidade Federal de Juiz de ForaThis article is about the problem of scientific statute of psychology. Its proposal is to evaluate in what extension cognitivism solved historical objections to the possibility of a scientific psychology. Based on an evaluation of classical texts of the “cognitive revolution”, it concludes that this approach presented a philosophical project of psychological science that solved most of the ontological and epistemological endemic problems of the discipline, like the one of non quantitative nature of psychological object, the subject and object simultaneity condition, the supposed non-existence of own object and the impossibility of psychological phenomenon direct observation. However, cognitivism ignored or worsened the problems about the possibility of some level of human autonomy and of the psychological explanation complexity. Despite its evident advances, cognitivism still doesn’t get full accomplishment of the project of ontological, epistemological and methodological fundamentation of a psychology completed adhered to modern science. http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/2904/2556epistemologyphilosophy of sciencecognitivismcognitive psychologyphilosophy of psychology |
| spellingShingle | Gustavo Arja Castañon Cognitivism and the Problem of Scientific Psychology Psicologia epistemology philosophy of science cognitivism cognitive psychology philosophy of psychology |
| title | Cognitivism and the Problem of Scientific Psychology |
| title_full | Cognitivism and the Problem of Scientific Psychology |
| title_fullStr | Cognitivism and the Problem of Scientific Psychology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cognitivism and the Problem of Scientific Psychology |
| title_short | Cognitivism and the Problem of Scientific Psychology |
| title_sort | cognitivism and the problem of scientific psychology |
| topic | epistemology philosophy of science cognitivism cognitive psychology philosophy of psychology |
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