A New Logical Foundation for Psychology

(SpringerBriefs in Psychology) 1st ed. 2017 Edition 

by Jens Mammen (Author) 

This SpringerBrief provides an interdisciplinary synthesis based on psychology, logic, mathematics, cognitive science, and the history of science. It presents psychology as a science that suffers from a reduced understanding of the most fundamental logic in our practical-bodily encounters with the world, including with our fellow human beings. The Brief offers a new “dual” logic that is based on the duality between identification and description of objects, including persons. The Brief ties in modern mathematics as a tool that can be used to catch this duality in a precise manner.
Featured topics in this Brief include:

• The emergence of Mechanism.
• The duality in animal and human subject-object relations.
• Psychology’s compatibility with natural sciences.
• Four cornerstones of modern mathematics.
• The Extensional Method.

A New Logical Foundation for Psychology will beof interest to psychologist, philosophers, and mathematicians concerned with basic theoretical and methodological problems.