An Ontological Turn for Psychology in the Age of the Machine and Global Warming

Q3 Psychology

International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1027/2157-3891/a000075

L. Sundararajan

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Abstract: This essay pays homage to indigenous psychology by reiterating its central theme – decolonization – through a variant of the theme in the call for an ontological turn. Ontology refers to human’s basic commitments and assumptions about reality, namely what things are, and what they could be. It is argued that ontologies have consequences. The ontology of objects privileged in science facilitates the acquisition of objective knowledge in the physical world, but cannot improve our understanding of the culturally different other whose lives may be shaped by ontology of subjects. Ethnographic data from Southeast Asia are used as illustration of how ontology of subjects may fill a moral vacuum in value-neutral science and give psychology better insights into the problems of advanced technology ranging from automatization to global warming.

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机器和全球变暖时代心理学的本体论转向

摘要:本文在本体论转向的呼唤中，通过主题的一个变体，重申了其中心主题-非殖民化，以此向土著心理学致敬。本体论是指人类对现实的基本承诺和假设，即事物是什么，事物可能是什么。有人认为本体论具有结果。在科学中享有特权的客体本体论有助于在物理世界中获得客观知识，但不能提高我们对文化上不同的他者的理解，他者的生活可能由主体本体论塑造。来自东南亚的民族志数据被用来说明主体本体论如何填补价值中立科学中的道德真空，并使心理学更好地洞察从自动化到全球变暖等先进技术的问题。

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