What is it to Depsychologize Psychology?. (22nd February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bäckström, Stina
• Is Part Of: European journal of philosophy. Volume 25:Number 2(2017:Jun.)
• Page Start: 358
• Page End: 375
• Publication Date: 2017-02-22
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; Philosophy, European -- Periodicals; Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals; 190
• DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12213
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0966-8373

Abstract

Abstract: In this essay, I distinguish two ways of depsychologizing psychology: 'anti‐psychologism' and 'non‐psychologism'. Both positions are responses to the Fregean sharp distinction between the logical and the psychological. But where anti‐psychologism, which I find in John McDowell, attempts to overcome the sharp distinction by arguing that psychological states and their expressions are apt to be articulated into judgments, Stanley Cavell's non‐psychologism, a powerful and neglected alternative, wants to overcome the sharp distinction by abandoning judgment as the paradigm expression of thought and communication.