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A serious and ancient evaluation of psychology on the crossroads
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When these two extremes meet, “science wars” are the likely result (Ross, 1996). However, discourse reductionism is no less problematical than the kind of naturalism that renders discourse invisible. To point out that many of the phenomena we look at in the history of the human sciences are discursive in nature is one thing; to claim that all is discourse is another. Such a claim may be all that one needs if one’s historical account is to be purely descriptive, but if one wants to suggest causal interconnections, one has to go outside discourse if there is not to be a relapse into a new kind of idealism, discourse idealism.
On the one hand, they need to investigate what lies behind the historical persistence of some psychological objects, the contribution of institutionalized practices or discursive traditions, for instance. On the other hand, they need to question the tendency to credit psychological objects with much greater historical persistence than they in fact possess and to make visible the extraordinary historical mutability of these objects. Inevitably, that will not make their work popular among those with vested interests in the status quo, but significant sections of the discipline will not be threatened by critical historical investigations and may even be encouraged by them (Danziger, 1994).
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