What is it that one knows when one knows 'psychology'?

Theory and Psychology Volume 9, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 197-227

ISSN: 09593543Document Type: Article Source Type: Journal

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What is it that one knows when one knows 'psychology'?

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Craig, A.P.^{a b}

^a Ctr. for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
^b PO Box 196, St James, 7946, South Africa

Abstract

In this paper I am concerned with our conception of ourselves and how best to study the person. I will argue that it is on a non-psychic conception of the person that we can pin our hopes for knowing something interesting and informative about people. Moreover, I suggest a productive route out of the (metaphysical) dualism between bodies and minds - which seems to have always bedevilled the study of people - and into another; that between science and stories. I advocate a continuous interplay between stories and science because, in this way, we are better able to account for and configure who we are and how to live, as I argue in what follows. However, this does not promise a final word on how to study people, nor does it solve inter-theoretic battles between science and stories.

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English

Author keywords

Bodiliness/embodiment; Inter-theoretic; Person; Science; Stories

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