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Chapter 3 - The Goal of Socrates
Paul van Geert, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Naomi de Ruiter, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Book:

Toward a Process Approach in Psychology

Published online:

14 July 2022

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28 July 2022, pp 44-60
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Summary

We discuss the broad organizational power-structures that regulate the virtues of doing science, the values upheld, and the introduction of novices into the scientific community. Aristotle’s scheme of knowledge is used to introduce the relevance of a value-laden praxis, of phronesis, which is the virtue of ‘doing’. We discuss these ideological issues in the context of classic philosophical notions put forth by Hannah Arendt (and her work on action) and Bruno Latour (and his work on praxis, actor networks, and inscription devices). This chapter thus serves as a broad foundation for analyses of the ways in which scientific virtues are deeply intertwined with the activities of psychological science. It sketches psychology as action-based and virtue-laden, based on the notion of a dynamic praxis consisting of interacting agents.