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“The Two Cultures” and the Place of Psychology

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A New Logical Foundation for Psychology

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Abstract

Psychology has been caught between two opposing allies, natural science and human or social science, but mostly in reduced versions as mechanicism and hermeneutics, respectively. A new understanding of human life as described here could, however, open for a unified field of study, including psychology.

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Notes

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    You could call it a “non-logocentric” semiotics, recognizing the derived status of language.

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    All works by Mammen can be downloaded freely from http://engelsted.net/mammenbibliografi.htm (until 2011) or from the links listed.

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All works by Mammen can be downloaded freely from http://engelsted.net/mammenbibliografi.htm (until 2011) or from the links listed.

  • Ilyenkov, E. V. (1977). The concept of the ideal. In Philosophy in the USSR. Problems of dialectical materialism (pp. 71–91). Moscow, Russia: Progress Publishers.

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Mammen, J. (2017). “The Two Cultures” and the Place of Psychology. In: A New Logical Foundation for Psychology . SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67783-5_9

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