Understanding human nature

a post-foundationalist psychology

Leendert Mos

Casey P. Boodt

pp. 31-39

in: Stam, Leendert Mos, Warren Thorngate, Bernie Kaplan (eds), Recent trends in theoretical psychology, Berlin, Springer, 1993

Abstract

A critical overview of the pragmatical and hermeneutical roots of a post-foundationalist philosophy with particular focus on its implications for psychology. It is argued that the pragmatic turn in post-positivist anti-foundationalism fails to understand that our individual and collective practices are normatively grounded in a hermeneutics of social and historical traditions.