Toward a Process Approach in Psychology: Stepping Into Heraclitus' River

ISBN-13: 9781108490900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 300 str.

The Netherlands) de Ruit Naomi (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Opis

Offers an entirely new way of thinking about how psychology works and how it constructs knowledge, using a process-based approach.

Recenzje

'Van Geert and de Ruiter provide psychological scientists with a timely admonition: our discipline's mainstream research practices and assumptions have yielded a base of knowledge and view of reality wholly out of touch with the time- and context-sensitive dynamics of people and their functioning. Written with exceptional clarity, precision, and scope, this remarkable new book adds immeasurably to the growing list of scholarly works challenging science's orthodox ontology of substance in favor of a process ontology.' David Witherington, Associate Professor, The University of New Mexico, USA

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Change, the final frontier; 2. A (selected) foundation for a process approach; 3. The goal of Socrates; 4. Esteeming entities; 5. A person acting amongst persons; 6. Cliffhangers and utilitarian infants; 7. Causes, kings and interventions; 8. (Compl)explanation and King Alfonso's lament; 9. What's in a name?; 10. (Un)certainties; 11. Troubled waters of Hercalitus' river?; 12. Psychological science as a complex dynamic system.