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