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What is it That One Knows When One Knows ‘Psychology’?

University of Stellenboschgonzo{at}iafrica.com

In this paper I am concerned with our conception of ourselves and how best to study the person. I will argue that it is on a non-psychic conception of the person that we can pin our hopes for knowing something interesting and informative about people. Moreover, I suggest a productive route out of the (metaphysical) dualism between bodies and minds—which seems to have always bedevilled the study of people—and into another; that between science and stories. I advocate a continuous interplay between stories and science because, in this way, we are better able to account for and configure who we are and how to live, as I argue in what follows. However, this does not promise a final word on how to study people, nor does it solve inter-theoretic battles between science and stories.

Key Words: bodiliness/embodiment • inter-theoretic • person • science • stories

Theory & Psychology, Vol. 9, No. 2, 197-227 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/095935439992005


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