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A critical overview of the pragmatical and hermeneutical roots of a post-foundationalist philosophy with particular focus on its implications for psychology. It is argued that the pragmatic turn in post-positivist anti-foundationalism fails to understand that our individual and collective practices are normatively grounded in a hermeneutics of social and historical traditions.
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Mos, L.P., Boodt, C.P. (1993). Understanding Human Nature: A Post-Foundationalist Psychology. In: Stam, H.J., Mos, L.P., Thorngate, W., Kaplan, B. (eds) Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2746-5_3
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