Psychology and Phenomenology: A Clarification

Autor/in	Kendler, Howard H.
Titel	Psychology and Phenomenology: A Clarification
Quelle	In: American Psychologist, 60 (2005) 4, S.318-324 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-066X
Schlagwörter	Psychology; Phenomenology; Moral Values; Scientific Methodology; Social Theories; Natural Sciences; Behavior Theories; Social Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychologie; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Gesellschaftstheorie; Naturwissenschaften; Sozialer Einfluss
Abstract	Controversies are rampant in contemporary psychology concerning the appropriate method for observing consciousness and the role inner experience should play in psychological theorizing. These conflicting orientations reflect, in part, methodological differences between natural science and human science interpretations of psychology. Humanistic psychology and philosophical phenomenology both employ a human science approach to psychology that seeks to explain behavior in terms of a person's subjective existence. Maslow's and Heidegger's formulations are both fulfillment theories in that they specify moral values that suggest how life ought to be lived. Natural science methodology rejects the possibility that moral imperatives can be validated, whereas human science methodology allows phenomenological convictions to justify recommendations about a fulfilled life and a good society. The social role of psychology is analyzed within the framework of phenomenological convictions and scientific truth. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10