Godman, Marion (2024) Latent Variables, Psychological Constructs, and The Prospect of Scientific Kinds in Psychology. [Preprint]
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In this paper, we consider how latent variables of mainstream quantitative psychology fits with two different models of scientific kinds. On the one hand, there is a good reason to think they fit with taxonomic and predictive success criteria that are popular within an epistemic understanding of scientific kinds. On the other hand, they conflict with widely shared person-based ontological commitments that underwrite psychological kinds because this research rests in large part on between-individual studies. We explore the implications of the different views on scientific kinds and argue that this is indeed a dilemma for the scientific discipline of psychology.
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| Keywords: | psychological kinds, latent variables, intelligence, the Big Five, psychological constructs, natural kinds | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Natural Kinds Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Marion Godman | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2024 12:47 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2024 12:47 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 23953 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1086/733192 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Natural Kinds Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Date: | 25 September 2024 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23953 |
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