The Golem of Psychology and the Ecosystemic Epistemology.

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Title: The Golem of Psychology and the Ecosystemic Epistemology.
Authors: Tateo, Luca (AUTHOR)
Source: Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science. Sep2020, Vol. 54 Issue 3, p667-676. 10p. 3 Diagrams.
Subjects: Theory of knowledge, Ecology, Environmental psychology, Psychology, Life sciences
Abstract: The old controversy about the epistemic status of psychological sciences is useless and sterile. Psychology is ether a hard science nor a soft science. It is an ecological life science, whose object is the whole system of co-developmental relations constituted by the presence of the organism in a given environment. After criticizing the positions of the traditional epistemic debate between hard and soft views of psychology, I propose a way to fundament the core concepts in the method of complementary negation, based on cogenetic logic. Then, I defend the need to develop a third way: an ecological epistemology of psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:The old controversy about the epistemic status of psychological sciences is useless and sterile. Psychology is ether a hard science nor a soft science. It is an ecological life science, whose object is the whole system of co-developmental relations constituted by the presence of the organism in a given environment. After criticizing the positions of the traditional epistemic debate between hard and soft views of psychology, I propose a way to fundament the core concepts in the method of complementary negation, based on cogenetic logic. Then, I defend the need to develop a third way: an ecological epistemology of psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:19324502
DOI:10.1007/s12124-020-09532-5