Ground-Breaking Innovations in General Psychology

Annette Løw T Aboulafia; Magnus Dahl

doi:10.1007/s12124-019-09493-4

Ground-Breaking Innovations in General Psychology

Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2019 Jun;53(2):207-222. doi: 10.1007/s12124-019-09493-4.

Authors

Annette Løw T Aboulafia¹, Magnus Dahl²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of People and Technology, Department of Psychology, Roskilde University, 03.1-E, Postbox 260, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark.
² Institute of People and Technology, Department of Psychology, Roskilde University, 03.1-E, Postbox 260, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark. magnusd@ruc.dk.

PMID: 31127534
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-019-09493-4

Abstract

The article addresses two recently published books in General Psychology by Niels Engelsted and Jens Mammen. The two approaches offer in their own way solutions to the so-called 'crisis of psychology'. Mammen's new logical foundation for psychology is based on two different properties of the objects we relate to: those characterizing the objects appearances, and those characterizing the objects as unique substances or singulars distributed in time and space - the existence of the objects as opposed to the appearance of the objects. Engelsted makes a journey from Aristotle (384-322 BC) until today's psychology in his quest to identify the domain of psychology. He places the psyche in the natural world as a result of locomotion in the first, most simple animal life. The domain of psychology includes intentionality, mind and consciousness.

Keywords: Causality; Crisis of psychology; General psychology; Intentionality; Interface and interspace; Sense- and choice categories; Subject and object.