Changed Date: Conceptual Change in Psychology

Carrie Figdor (Iowa, USA)

03.12.2019 RUB GA 04/187

14.15 – 15.15 (Lecture / Brief Q&A) GA/04 187

15.20 – 16.00 (Further Discussion)

Psychology began as the part of philosophy concerning the soul. Scientific psychology is still struggling to abandon this historical legacy. I will discuss the ways in which psychology remains unjustifiably anthropocentric, and how and why it is finally undergoing the conceptual revolution needed to make it fully consistent with evolutionary theory.