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Title of article - The neurosciences and the search for a unified psychology: the science and esthetics of a single framework.

Abstract

The search for a so-called unified or integrated theory has long served as a goal for some psychologists, even if the search is often implicit. But if the established sciences do not have an explicitly unified set of theories, then why should psychology? After examining this question again I argue that psychology is in fact reasonably unified around its methods and its commitment to functional explanations, an indeterminate functionalism. The question of the place of the neurosciences in this framework is complex. On the one hand, the neuroscientific project will not likely renew and synthesize the disparate arms of psychology. On the other hand, their reformulation of what it means to be human will exert an influence in multiple ways. One way to capture that influence is to conceptualize the brain in terms of a technology that we interact with in a manner that we do not yet fully understand. In this way we maintain both a distance from neuro-reductionism and refrain from committing to an unfettered subjectivity.

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Department of Psychology, University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada.

Details of Journal for The neurosciences and the search for a unified psychology: the science and esthetics of a single framework.

Journal Title - Frontiers in psychology

ISSN - 1664-1078

Volume - 6

Issue - 0

Publish date - 2015-

Language - eng

Country - Switzerland