Edwin E. (Hrsg.) Gantt

On Hijacking Science

Exploring the Nature and Consequences of Overreach in Psychology

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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 wi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Williams, Richard N. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-351-06256-5
EAN: 9781351062565
Produktnummer: 27323703
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 144 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'077 KB

Über den Autor

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.