Unifying psychology: epistemological act or disciplinary maneuver?
Two arguments with attempts to unify psychology are adumbrated in this commentary. First, the unification of psychology is largely a disciplinary maneuver and not primarily an epistemological act. Second, the discipline of psychology has been unified for some time around a series of methodological and functional categories that have served to support its institutional projects but hide metaphysical problems.
Department of Psycholgy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Camada T2N 1N4. stam@ucalgary.ca
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