Mammen Jens
Niels Bohr Professorship Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2019 Jun;53(2):223-237. doi: 10.1007/s12124-019-09487-2.
Taking departure in the author's recent book "A New Logical Foundation for Psychology" the paper proposes a solution to the long-standing so-called crisis in psychology. The causes to this crisis are above all found in a ruling reductionist and mathematically supported mechanistic understanding of nature with roots in European Renaissance, and following that, of man's embedment in nature. This leaves no place for non-mechanistic relations to unique and irreplaceable persons and objects defining the human psyche or soul, and fundamental phenomena as love and grief are consequently not understood. No humanistic superstructure of language or systems of signs and concepts can repair this loss of a vital dimension in basic human practical relations to the world. However, it is just in modern mathematics and mathematical logic, that the reductions of mechanicism are surmounted, at the same time leaving a place for mechanicism within a broader conceptual frame and defining a rich practical basis for understanding the role of language and human concepts. The wider perspectives comprise a new union of natural and human sciences. Finally the paper presents replies to two important commentaries to the author's abovementioned book.
本文以作者最近出版的《心理学的新逻辑基础》为出发点，提出了一种解决心理学中长期存在的所谓危机的方法。这场危机的根源首先在于一种占主导地位的还原论以及在欧洲文艺复兴时期扎根并随之而来的对人类嵌入自然的数学支持的机械主义自然观。这使得与定义人类心理或灵魂的独特且不可替代的人和对象的非机械关系没有了立足之地，结果像爱和悲伤这样的基本现象就无法被理解。语言或符号与概念系统的任何人文主义上层建筑都无法弥补人类与世界基本实践关系中这一重要维度的缺失。然而，正是在现代数学和数理逻辑中，机械主义的还原被超越了，同时在更广泛的概念框架内为机械主义留出了空间，并为理解语言和人类概念的作用定义了丰富的实践基础。更广阔的视角包含了自然科学与人文科学的新结合。最后，本文对针对作者上述书籍的两篇重要评论做出了回应。
