Histoire et épistémologie de la psychologie
[PSYM2045]
[30h] 3 credits
This course is taught in the 2d semester.
Teacher(s): Guy Lories
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
Main themes
. The empiricist trends (Anglo-Saxon and ring of Vienna, Carnap) and its contradictors (Popper, Kuhn, Feyeraben)
. The phenomenological tradition and hermeneutic: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur
. The paradigm of complexity: Greenhouses and Morin.
- Locate the various theoretical trends that followed one another in the field of psychology, in particular the psychophysics, behaviorism, the gestalt, the psychoanalysis, the approach of Piaget, cognitivism, etc
- Locate the object of the psychological discipline compared to the close disciplines (biology, sociology) in their contemporary developments.
Content and teaching methods
- Comments on the criteria allowing to distinguish a founded speech from a non- founded speech. We will base our comments on epistemological trends, in particular:
. The empiricist trends (Anglo-Saxon and ring of Vienna, Carnap) and its contradictors (Popper, Kuhn, Feyeraben)
. The phenomenological tradition and hermeneutic: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur
. The paradigm of complexity: Greenhouses and Morin.
- Locate the various theoretical trends that followed one another in the field of psychology, in particular the psychophysics, behaviorism, the gestalt, the psychoanalysis, the approach of Piaget, cognitivism, etc
- Locate the object of the psychological discipline compared to the close disciplines (biology, sociology) in their contemporary developments.