Kniha Biologism - The Consequence of an Illusion Manfred Velden

Biologism - The Consequence of an Illusion

Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Pevná
Vydavateľ: V&R unipress GmbH
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa v malom množstve
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Biologism describes the idea that the science of biology supplies the means to exhaustively explain...

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Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydalo
2009
Stránok
148
EAN
9783899717488
ISBN
3899717481
Enbook ID
05045264
Vydavateľ
Hmotnosť
462
Rozmery
163 x 245 x 25

Kompletný popis

Biologism describes the idea that the science of biology supplies the means to exhaustively explain psychological processes. It has become vastly popular in recent decades. Manfred Velden shows that this idea is illusory on fundamental and a priori grounds. Several fields of inquiry are described, where the biologistic project has demonstrably failed, like, for example, heritability estimates for mental traits like intelligence. It is argued as well that biologism is just a further instance of an older, more comprehensive and equally illusory concept: psychology as a natural science (a science that produces generally accepted basic facts, for example the creation of a psychological risk factor for coronary disease). It is shown that psychology, masquerading as a natural science, as it largely does, may create serious societal problems like, for example, its misuse for racist purposes. The peculiar use of methodology in psychology is also documented.

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