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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 will be of value to scholars and students interested
in the scientific status and the philosophical bases of psychology
as a discipline.
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 will be of value to scholars and students interested
in the scientific status and the philosophical bases of psychology
as a discipline.
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