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Van Strien’s argument that theory construction be treated as historical practice is intellectually quite appetizing — it is served up in a complex but elegant contextual setting, the wine list spans a broad historical range, and the epistemological menu offers not just one specialized cuisine but an extensive, trans-disciplinary diversity, freed from the constraints of “antipole” theoretical choices. By the time the dessert cart arrives, we have thoroughly savoured and digested this gourmet analysis and conclude that we can, in fact, simultaneously have our cake and eat it too: regulated, synchronic, universalist, stable “theory” being nibbled away through ephemeral, diachronic, shifting, evolving, relativistic, historical transformations. For such a feast of ideas, reservations, however, are suggested (and I shall offer a few in Sections 4 and 5).
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Lubek, I. (1993). The View From “Social Psychology of Science”. In: Rappard, H.V., Van Strien, P.J., Mos, L.P., Baker, W.J. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Annals of Theoretical Psychology, vol 8. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2982-8_14
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