Affiliation:
1. Independent Scholar, USA
Abstract
Held (2020a) does critical psychologists a service in exposing a problematic relativism underlying Teo’s proposal for a less epistemically violent psychology, one sustained by a set of false dualisms and a priori commitments. This commentary can be understood as a logical progression within the author’s larger intellectual journey, reflecting longstanding concerns about threats to objective truth. One take-home lesson is the perils of taking language too literally as a constitutive matrix in deploying counter concepts, as opposed to the empirical realities of how those concepts function (and get wielded) in the world. Importantly, this includes debates over who counts as “oppressed” and who gets to claim this status. As one alternative to Teo’s unsustainable dichotomies, I offer a metaphorical “psychology from ahead” whose concepts and interpretive findings anticipate unfamiliar experiences and challenges evolving in real time, and where emergency and crisis serve as the lens for combating injustices, epistemic and otherwise.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,General Psychology
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