Psychology of Science/Theology of Science: Reaching Out or Narrowing?

Abstract. Formalizing a “psychology of science” today will constrain intellectual freedom in ways more likely stultifying than liberating. We should be more improvisational in seeking ideas from academic psychology to develop a more comprehensive purview. I suggest that a psychology of science shoul...

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Main Author: Glassman, Robert B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2007
In: Zygon
Year: 2007, Volume: 42, Issue: 3, Pages: 651-676
Further subjects:B Doctrine
B Book review
B Progress
B falsifiability
B Conservatism
B Intellectual History
B Consciousness
B Scale
B Reductionism
B Freedom
B Creativity
B working memory capacity
B scientific languages
B Parsimony
B Cognitive
B Analogy
B humanistic
B Behaviorism
B Philosophy
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