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- Title
A Wittgensteinian Comment on "Psychology: A Giant with Feet of Clay" A Question from Research on Creativity.
- Authors
Pinheiro, Marina Assis
- Abstract
The present comment of the paper by Zagaria, Andò and Zennaro (2020) invests in the possible pragmatic entry of language in the problem of Psychology as a scientific enterprise, concerning the impossibility of consensus on its key constructs/concepts, and, consequently, the little cumulative capacity of the knowledge produced. Thus, the necessary discussion on the ambiguity, the cloudiness of the fundamental concepts of Psychology are reflected through the contributions of Wittgenstein II (2009) and the neopragmatism of Rorty (1999, 1995). Rorty offers a contemporary landscape on the purpose of knowledge production through his propositions on the relationship among truth, ethics and science in the humanities. The psychology of creativity is placed in the discussion as a field that well illustrate how the diversity of language games in Psychology reflects ethical perspectives in dealing with the phenomena, in this case related to the emergence of novelty, and the Rortian ironist reading on the relationship between objectivity and solidarity.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; LITERARY recreations; CLAY; CREATIVE ability; FOOT
- Publication
Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science, 2020, Vol 54, Issue 3, p651
- ISSN
1932-4502
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12124-020-09544-1