Name: On Hijacking Science By Edwin E. Gantt (Brigham Young University, USA)
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On Hijacking Science: Exploring the Nature and Consequences of Overreach in Psychology by Edwin E. Gantt (Brigham Young University, USA)

This book examines the origins, presence, and implications of scientistic thinking in psychology. Scientism embodies the claim that only knowledge attained by means of natural scientific methods counts as valid and valuable. This perspective increasingly dominates thinking and practice in psychology and is seldom acknowledged as anything other than standard scientific practice. This book seeks to make this intellectual movement explicit and to detail the very real limits in both role and reach of science in psychology. The critical chapters in this volume present an alternative perspective to the scholarly mainstreams of the discipline and will be of value to scholars and students interested in the scientific status and the philosophical bases of psychology as a discipline.

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'Gantt and Williams's edited volume brings together a stellar cast of contributors, all of whom seek to show, in their own distinctive ways, that the reigning, largely scientistic, view of psychological inquiry is but one view among many possible ones. By alerting us to the parochial nature of the dominant view, they pave the way toward fashioning not only a broader, more inclusive perspective on what psychological inquiry might be but a vastly expanded, more humanly adequate, vision of the discipline itself.' -Mark Freeman, Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society, College of the Holy Cross, USA

'Kierkegaard once criticized theology for selling off its authority in order to buy stock in rationality from the philosophers. Theology sits rouged at the window, he mocked, and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it. One could worry psychology has done the same: it has sold off the soul in order to purchase a claim to science. This volume is a careful, thoughtful challenge to such reductionism, offered for the sake of both science and psychology.' -James K.A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College, USA

About Edwin E. Gantt (Brigham Young University, USA)

Edwin E. Gantt is Associate Professor of Psychology, Brigham Young University. He has formal training in phenomenology and hermeneutics, and has published broadly in the theory and philosophy of psychology. Richard N. Williams is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Wheatley Institution, Brigham Young University. He has published on topics related to scientism, human agency, and theoretical psychology.

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On Hijacking Science: Exploring the Nature and Consequences of Overreach in Psychology by Edwin E. Gantt (Brigham Young University, USA)

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Edwin E. Gantt (Brigham Young University, USA)

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

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20191017

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