Evaluación de explicaciones cognitivas en psicología

Jonatan García Campos

Resumen


The Assesment of cognitive explanations in psychology

Psychology is a unique scientific discipline due to its disagreements at different levels. This paper explores controversies on particular subjects within cognitive psychology. Comparing different explanations about the autistic spectrum, I will offer a tool that can help evaluate such explanations. I have called this tool a “box of virtues”, which contains a set of virtues divided into epistemic, analytical, pragmatic and political ones. Since the interest of the paper is not limited to discuss the different explanations concerning autism, but psychological theories at large, I will try to show that the box of virtues can be generalized and used as a tool to asses different explanations in cognitive psychology that share the same subject.

 

Key words: Scientific explanations, cognition, psychology, scientific disagreements, epistemic virtues, autism, reasoning.


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