Epistemic cultural constraints on the uses of psychology |
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| Institution: | 1. Université Grenoble Alpes, LPNC UMR CNRS 5105, 38000, Grenoble, France;2. Univ. Lille, ULR 4072 – PSITEC – Psychologie: Interactions, Temps, Emotions, Cognition, F-59000, Lille, France;1. Department of Philosophy, Grinnell College, 1120 Park St, Grinnell, IA, 50112, USA;2. Department of Neurology, Emory University, 101 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA;3. Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, 101 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA;4. Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA;5. Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA;6. Simulation Science & Immersive Technology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA;7. Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80525, USA;1. Experimental Psychology Unit, Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043, Hamburg, Germany;2. Faculty of Life Sciences, Medical School Hamburg, Am Kaiserkai 1, 20457, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | This paper describes some epistemic cultural considerations which shape the uses of psychology. I argue the study of mind is bound by the metaphysical background of the given locale and era in which it is practiced. The epistemic setting in which psychology takes place will shape what is worth observing, how it is to be studied, how the data is to be interpreted, and the nature of the ultimate explanatory units. To demonstrate conceptual epistemic constraints, I discuss metaphor use in psychology. In addition, epistemic constraints shape the praxes that arise from structural study of the mind. In order to illustrate this cultural constraint, I discuss Soviet Psychology and provide a contrast between practical uses of psychoanalysis in India, Egypt, and rural Ghana. In response to these conceptual and practical epistemic limitations, psychology could adapt methods drawn from history and anthropology. |
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| Keywords: | Philosophy of psychology Metaphor History of psychology Cultural psychology Epistemology Critical psychology Psychology and anthropology |
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