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History and epistemology of psychology [PSY2080]
[30h] 3 credits

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This course is taught in the 2nd semester

Teacher(s):

Marc Crommelinck

Language:

French

Level:

Second cycle

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>> Main themes
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Aims

This course aims at developing a critical look of the students on their discipline

Main themes

- thinking on the criterions allowing to distinguish a founded discourse from an unfounded one., by referring to some epistemological trends :
- empirist trend (anglo-saxon and Vienna circle, CARNAP) and its opponents (Popper, Kuhn, Feyeraben)
- phenomenological and hermeneutic tradition : Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur
- multiplexity paradigm : Serres and Morin
- to position different theoretical trends having followed one another in the field of psychology, particularly psychophysics, behaviorism, gestalt, psychoanalysis, piagetian approach, cognitivism, etc.
- to position the own object of the psychological discipline according to neighbouring disciplines (biology, sociology) in their current developments.

Content and teaching methods

This course aims at developing a critical look of the students on their discipline

Programmes in which this activity is taught

PSP2A

Agrégation de l'enseignement secondaire supérieur (sciences psychologiques et sciences de l'éducation)

Other credits in programs

PSP2A

Agrégation de l'enseignement secondaire supérieur (sciences psychologiques et sciences de l'éducation)

(3 credits)

PSY2

Licence en sciences psychologiques

(3 credits)



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