Psychology, Biology and Social Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21159998 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Moll (0000-0003-2891-7163, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-76 |
| Publication date | 2004-08-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Critical Realism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7430 • E-ISSN: 1572-5138 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jcr.v3i1.49 |
| OpenAlex | W2072843819 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Contemporary psychologists seem to pull in two theoretical directions, namely the reduction of mind to brain and the dissolution of mind in society. Against these dominant trends, this article employs the tools of critical realism to argue for the resuscitation in the discipline, psychology, of an ontologically distinct, psychological concept of mind. This ‘mind’ is conceived here as a real, ontologically emergent property. Its distinctive property is consciousness, generated in the first instance by unconscious, non-conscious and conscious psychological mechanisms. Nonetheless, it is emergent not only from psychological mechanisms, but also biological and social mechanisms, all of which act together in open systems. The article builds on various accounts of the hierarchy of the sciences and their objects to suggest that there is such a real psychological object. It seeks to refute trends in psychological theory that reduce mind either to neuro-physiological and neurobiological properties on the one hand or to social relational and discursive properties on the other
Cognitive science · Consciousness · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Psychological research · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2017 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |