According to Weber, what was salient about the culture of modernity was the large and increasing extent to which its values were those of instrumental rationality. Certain ends are taken as given and rationality is taken to consist in calculation as to the most efficient means to achieve those ends. Instrumentality rationality is socially embodied … Fortsätt läsa The world of modernity is a disenchanted world
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Psychology and the character of science
What defines the very character of science is not the mechanical application of one or another method, but a much larger narrative in which methods are chosen because of their transparent relevance to a widely perceived problem. The methods adopted by Archimedes in ancient Greece, Newton in seventeenth-century England, Darwin in the middle of the nineteenth century, and … Fortsätt läsa Psychology and the character of science
The key difficulty facing psychology
It seems incontestable that the key difficulty facing psychology ever since it chose to become a science is that of being able to treat in an adequate manner the phenomena of human reality. The great division in psychology's perennial debate on this matter is between those who make a commitment to science first, and then … Fortsätt läsa The key difficulty facing psychology
How psychology makes itself true – or false
Psychology is not only the study of human thinking, feeling, acting, and interacting: it has itself – like the other human sciences – brought into being new ways of thinking, feeling, acting, and interacting. We ordinary people whom the psychologist studies have turned out to be not quite the same ordinary people that we were … Fortsätt läsa How psychology makes itself true – or false
Man is essentially a story-telling animal
A central thesis then begins to emerge: man is in his actions and practice, as well as in his fictions, essentially a story-telling animal. He is not essentially, but becomes through his history, a teller of stories that aspire to truth. But the key question for men is not about their own authorship; I can … Fortsätt läsa Man is essentially a story-telling animal
Studies of Depression
The essential problem with nearly all studies of depression is that we hear the voices of a battalion of mental health experts (doctors, nurses, social workers, sociologists, psychologists, therapists) and never the voices of depressed people themselves. We do not hear what depression feels like, what it means to receive an "official" diagnosis, or what … Fortsätt läsa Studies of Depression
The Western conception of the person
The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against such wholes and against its social and natural background, is, however incorrigible it may seem to us, a … Fortsätt läsa The Western conception of the person
God filosofi
God filosofi är den som förstår att den är det, dålig filosofi är den som framträder som vetenskaplig objektivitet eller fungerar som implicit förutsättning för den vetenskapliga diskussionen. (Umberto Eco, Den frånvarande strukturen, 1971, s. 345–346)
The Unity of Human Life
In what does the unity of an individual life consist? The answer is that its unity is the unity of a narrative embodied in a single life. To ask 'What is the good for me?' is to ask how best I might live out that unity and bring it to completion. To ask 'What is … Fortsätt läsa The Unity of Human Life
How Science Progresses
Progress in science is won by the application of an informed imagination to a problem of genuine consequence; not by the habitual application of some formulaic mode of inquiry to a set of quasi-problems chosen chiefly because of their compatibility with the adopted method. Daniel N. Robinson, "Paradigms and 'the Myth of Framework'", Theory & … Fortsätt läsa How Science Progresses