I will be offering this 10-week seminar starting in the last week of September. It’s the first time I’m running something like this outside of an institution, and I think I’ll only be able to do it once a year. During this course, we’ll be addressing some of the foundational questions in general psychology as…
Category: philosophy of science
Interview with Sebastjan Vörös: Minds, Worlds & Non-Duality
In an interview with Davood Gozli, Sebastjan Vörös reflects on the motive to connect science and philosophy, exploring life’s dynamic essence, challenging dualistic and mechanistic views, inspired by thinkers like Francisco Varela, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem.
What Is Science? Science versus Scientism
The 2018 volume, On Hijacking Science, edited by Edwin E. Gantt and Richard N. Williams, provides a good starting point in thinking about general questions about science, e.g., What is science? What are the differences, if any, between science and scientism? Why are there tensions between a scientific (scientistic) worldview and those grounded in older…
Jeff Sugarman on Psychologism
In his Chapter, An Historical Turn in Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology, Jeff Sugarman (2019) begins by distinguishing three different approach to historiography (borrowing from Nikolas Rose). Among the three approaches, he introduces and adopts ‘critical history’. One of the aims of critical history is to explicate styles of reasoning that are operating in the background…
Re: Brad Jesness’s Review
Here is a link to Brad Jesness’s review of my book, which I read with interest. The review is posted on ResearchGate as a “comment”, and I decided to respond to it here for the sake of convenience. Brad (and others) could continue the thread either here or on RG. I wasn’t expecting much of…