Description

• Title:
  The Person at the Core of Psychological Science
• Creator:
  Franck, Juan F.
• Description:
  The paper has been written from a philosophical perspective and triggered by the recurrent discussions in psychology about the most suitable methods to study our multifaceted subjectivity. Its main point is that a phenomenological understanding of the human person provides a robust and also flexible philosophical framework for psychology. The first part discusses three classical distinctions –individual/general; explaining/understanding; induction/interpretation– which, in spite of possible deficiencies, are useful to illustrate the specificity of the human sciences relative to the natural sciences. If not understood as an either-or dichotomy these distinctions represent the search of the right balance to reflect the complexity and richness of psychological science. The second part presents the phenomenological notions of ‘vital reduction’ and ‘personalist reduction’, where reductions does not take on an eliminativistic meaning, but of directing the mind’s gaze to attend to what is originally the case. The ‘vital reduction’ reveals a subject of experience at the center of the lifeworld, and the ‘personalist reduction’ sees in rationality –i.e., the power to grasp the meaning of things and to recognize other subjects of experience­– a deeper dimension of the subject, who we can thus call a person. Psychology and phenomenology converge in disclosing the person-centeredness of our lifeworld.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Scientia et Fides
• Date:
  2021.08.29
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Scientia et Fides; Vol. 9 No. 2 (2021): Experimental Psychology and the Notion of Personhood; 15-33;
  Scientia et Fides; Tom 9 Nr 2 (2021): Psychologia eksperymentalna i pojęcie osobowości; 15-33;
  2353-5636;
  2300-7648
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/34100/29847
• Subject:
  psychology;
  personalism;
  phenomenology;
  personalist reduction;
  humanistic psychology;
  hermeneutics
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/34100
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text