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THE NOTION OF SUBSTANCE IN PSYCHOLOGY: AN EXAMINATION OF SOME CURRENT VIEWS

THE NOTION OF SUBSTANCE IN PSYCHOLOGY: AN EXAMINATION OF SOME CURRENT VIEWS At the end of his monumental work on the origins and philosophical background of present-day psychology D. B. Klein expresses his agreement with the view that ‘the radical separation of psychology from philosophy has not been an unmixed blessing to either discipline’.l Perhaps there is no sphere of psychology where this opinion so merits attention as that concerned with the person. Indeed a study of the unconscious philosophical presuppositions in this field would probably illustrate that the separation is not so ‘radical’ as is usually supposed. There are, of course, conscious presuppositions to be found occasionally. As would be expected, a Russian contributor to the Encyclopedia of Psychology writes that ‘the general methodological (philosophical) foundations of Soviet Psychology are a sine qua non and will remain so in the visible future’.2 But even an American contributor, writing on Communication, can speak of the necessity of ‘some philosophy’ as a help to setting up experiments ‘as the subject is both practical and concerns people’. He writes, ‘To unite these two aspects in discussion the writer has found most useful the philosophy of Charles Sanders Pierce which he called Pragmatism’. Still, by and large, western empirical psychology has attempted to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

THE NOTION OF SUBSTANCE IN PSYCHOLOGY: AN EXAMINATION OF SOME CURRENT VIEWS

R. MOLONEY, S.J.
The Heythrop Journal , Volume 16 (1) – Jan 1, 1975
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Copyright © 1975 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0018-1196
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10.1111/j.1468-2265.1975.tb00426.x
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At the end of his monumental work on the origins and philosophical background of present-day psychology D. B. Klein expresses his agreement with the view that ‘the radical separation of psychology from philosophy has not been an unmixed blessing to either discipline’.l Perhaps there is no sphere of psychology where this opinion so merits attention as that concerned with the person. Indeed a study of the unconscious philosophical presuppositions in this field would probably illustrate that the separation is not so ‘radical’ as is usually supposed. There are, of course, conscious presuppositions to be found occasionally. As would be expected, a Russian contributor to the Encyclopedia of Psychology writes that ‘the general methodological (philosophical) foundations of Soviet Psychology are a sine qua non and will remain so in the visible future’.2 But even an American contributor, writing on Communication, can speak of the necessity of ‘some philosophy’ as a help to setting up experiments ‘as the subject is both practical and concerns people’. He writes, ‘To unite these two aspects in discussion the writer has found most useful the philosophy of Charles Sanders Pierce which he called Pragmatism’. Still, by and large, western empirical psychology has attempted to

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