SN = Sally Ness
SN: Regarding psychology, your comments led me to realize that the independence
Peirce wanted to declare for logic in relation to psychological phenomena
may have had consequences for the way in which other social sciences are
understood in relation to Perice's logic as well, if psychology is taken
as representative of all the social sciences in some way. This is quite
a thought, and my first response would be, "hold on a minute!" I wonder
if others have reflected on this.
The critical distinction is that between a descriptive science and a normative
science,
psychology being one example of many descriptive sciences and logic being one
of the
Big Three normative sciences, along with Ethics and Aesthetics. Even though
Logic
and Psychology have a large degree of overlap in the phenomena they treat, they
view it with very distinct aims in mind.
SN: In my view, psychology would be the weakest candidate for
representing the social sciences in general, focused as it
has been on subject-matter that typically, in the mainstreams
of the discipline, has been defined as basically individual in
character (individual psyches). It would seem to have a special
relationship to philosophy and to logic that is not replicated in
the other social sciences in this regard. I haven't thought this
through enough to say more, but I thank you for bringing it to
my attention.
I did once get a Masters in Psychology from a College of Social Science.
We used to call it the "Octopus" because there were eight specializations
that one could choose from. I was in Quantitative, which was mostly just
statistics and systems theory, but I took a well-tempered mix of Clinical,
Cognitive, and Industrial-Organizational. There was also Developmental,
Experimental-General, Humanistic, and Social-Personality Psychology.
Regards,
Jon
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