> On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Mike Drysdale <[email protected]> wrote: > How would you respond to the following quandary: > > "What does it mean to do psychology?"
Alpha version 0.01: For some, it means to pursue those narrow parts of the project of mind and behavior that obviously lend themselves to scientific investigation, trusting that one day these will enable us to crack the seal on the central areas of the topic that command wider interest. For others it means accepting that science in unlikely to ever take us much beyond the peripheral regions of mind and behavior and, so, instead, attempt to pioneer other methods of understanding in order to strike into the topic's heartland. For the rest, it means to pursue, against all odds, what William James once called the "hope of a science." They don't know exactly what it will look like when we get there, but they are sure we aren't there yet. Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=34464 or send a blank email to leave-34464-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
