2004'6, p.3
Myasoyed P. A.
Psychology in the context of different types of scientific rationality
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The author states that revolutionary changes in psychology, as well as in natural history, occur in the times of transition from classical to non-classical and post-non-classical rationality. Those changes bring to light a search for a monistic principle of solving the problem of the "interior-exterior" (the main problem of psychology). The latter is being conducted on a basis which psychology shares with natural science and which is characterized by the conceptions of a "dual world" (R.Descartes), a "whole world" (M.K.Mamardashvili), a "world self-cognized by man through himself" (S.L.Rubinstein). The above theoretical approaches can be illustrated in psychology by theories put forward by I.M.Sechenov, L.S.Vygotsky, V.A.Romenetz. The specificity of psychology is perceived as limited by the "circle of cognition" determined by the coincidence of the object and the subject of cognition. The author also suggests criteria for analyzing psychological theories based on different types of rationality.