Critical Disclosure of the Genuine and Enduring Problematic Concealed in Locke’s Investigations

Abstract

If psychic reality were in fact of the same ontological type as nature, then psychology, carried out rigorously and precisely as a science, would indeed have to look just like a natural science. It would have to be a science of purely inductive interconnections and a fundamentally different way of [treating] those interconnections that are merely entwined with the inductive ones—and hence an essentially different methodological approach to psychological research and theory—would be excluded on grounds of principle.