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Comment
. 2020 Sep;54(3):667-676.
doi: 10.1007/s12124-020-09532-5.

The Golem of Psychology and the Ecosystemic Epistemology

Luca Tateo  1
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The Golem of Psychology and the Ecosystemic Epistemology

Luca Tateo. Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2020 Sep.

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.

Keywords: Cogenetic logic; Cultural psychology; Ecological epistemology; Epistemology of psychology.

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The author declares that he has no conflict of interest.

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Examples of dyadic concepts in social sciences
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Triadic sets
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Cogenetic logic versus binary logic
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Comment on

  • Psychology: a Giant with Feet of Clay.
    Zagaria A, Ando' A, Zennaro A. Zagaria A, et al. Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2020 Sep;54(3):521-562. doi: 10.1007/s12124-020-09524-5. Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2020. PMID: 32297037

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