Values in Psychological Science - Re-Imagining Epistemic Priorities At a New Frontier

Examines the role of values in psychology and urges new directions of impact through interdisciplinary collaboration to face global issues.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Science, values, and persons; 2. Observing; 3. Imaginative sense-making; 4. Perspective-taking; Conclusion.

About the author

Lisa Osbeck is a Professor of Psychology, University of West Georgia, as wellas a Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, and of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Summary

This book examines the role of values in psychology, beginning with an acknowledgment that values are an inevitable facet of science. The analysis places the researcher as the principal instrument of any science; while exploring the value of observing, imaginative sense-making, and perspective-taking as essential to both arts and sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Osbeck, Lisa (University of West Georgia) Osbeck
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781316500972
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50097-2
• No. of pages: 157
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / History, History of Medicine