Questions tagged [psychology]
Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviours.
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Do people in life, engage, in reward, competition [closed]
This post is perhaps better suited to the psychology stack exchange.
It is about whether people in life engage in reward competition.
That is, given, an amount of effort, to obtain something, can a ...
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Is life about effort and reward marathons? [closed]
This question is perhaps better suited to the statistics stack exchange. Or, even better, to the psychology stack exchange.
It is about how many people, even across sexes and ages, engage in pleasure ...
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Higher education knowledge and high school knowledge and pleasure
This post wonders about the levels of pleasure that can be attained using high school only knowledge as compared to using higher education knowledge (assuming all pleasurable activities are related to ...
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Does Dissociative ego disorder challenge Descartes‘ „cogito-argument“?
In the 17th century Descartes set out for a new start in philosophy. Applying the method of systematic doubt he searched for a philosophical statement whose truth stands firm and cannot be questioned ...
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Scenario dissolution and cowardry
Suppose person A engages in
not thinking anything concerning a given scenario (scenario C) by not thinking about the scenario (scenario C)
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Must people be employed to have dignity and self-worth?
I have heard all my life about how people would not have self-worth without being employed, and they would become depressed or just do unhealthy things. I read a Sci-fi story about AI where ultimately,...
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Is imaginative resistance evidence against, or for, moral fictionalism?
There's an entry in the SEP called "Imaginative Resistance" which goes over an account of a problem with our ability to entertain moral counterfactuals:
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What was Neitzche calling "old frigid and tedious frogs"?
After the first paragraph of the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche discusses how English psychologists may be motivated to study the darker side of "our inner world". Then ...
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In moral-psychology terms, is it in vain, if not downright counterproductive, to compare inner moral issues to combat, esp. as per Kantian ethics?
Note: this question concerns the reason I started posting on this SE years ago, and has to do with my obsession with universal sets, anti-terms (antisets of late), the morality of punishment and ...
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Are there exceptionless psychological laws?
Are there exceptionless psychological laws, not probabilistic and/or not ceteris paribus? The idea that there are seems prima facie wrong and silly.
Suppose that you are running a psychology ...
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Violence vs Sex: Why are we typically more comfortable with graphic violence than explicit sex in gaming, television and film? [closed]
There is an apparent correlation between exposure to violence via the media and gaming, and anxiety, fear, aggression and desensitisation to violence.
My observations may be biased or unusual, but it ...
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Subjectivity and ethics surrounding mental illness diagnoses
I learnt the term 'anosognosia'; a 'lack of insight' into one's mental disorder. People who apparently 'suffer' from anosognosia are oblivious to the fact that they have a mental disorder, anosognosia ...
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What is the difference between an egoist and a high-functioning psychopath?
Egoism is the philosophy that it is moral to act in one's own self-interest. Egoists who follow this therefore go throughout their life practicing this philosophy, just like all other people who hold ...
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Does mental illness imply that a person's philosophy is invalid?
I noticed that in society, people use mental illness labels such as "psychopath", "autist", "narcissist" or "schizo" to dehumanize individuals and invalidate ...
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Are the psychological and sociological dimensions of philosophy philosophical matters?
Much to the horror of certain philosophers of science particularly those who clung to the logical positivists' notion that science was universally objective, Thomas Kuhn proposed that the politics of ...
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Dawkins on God: What are the strongest counters to his argument?
But the candidate solutions to the riddle of improbability are not, as is falsely implied, design and chance. They are design and natural selection. Chance is not a solution, given the high levels of ...
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Should one abstain from a behaviour because they know why they engage in it?
I'm 16, I don't study psychology in college, only biology, chemistry, physics and maths, but I find evolutionary psychology incredibly interesting, because it's the only psychological theory that ...
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How to act smartly so that people don't take you for granted? [closed]
In our daily life, we meet some people & friends who will make you part of their tough times (share about tough days/Seek support and help) but They don't make you part of his/her happy times (...
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How can one know if he/she is justified in believing X if it is not intuitive?
How intuitive a statement is is not generally taken as evidence to the truth of a statement. After all, it's a psychological state, and it makes no sense for a psychological state to influence the ...
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Can we assign probabilities to God and is the argument from improbability from Dawkins valid?
Dawkins essentially argues that if one observes some event that seems to be designed because it seems very improbable to have occurred, positing God as a hypothesis doesn't make sense, since God is ...
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Giving up or Moving on. What's the Difference?
I was struggling to decide whether to put this here or under Psychology, but here we are.
Usually when people face circumstances that are hard enough to be handled at a given moment of time. From ...
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In the nature-nurture war, what wins? Nature or nurture? [closed]
We focus on not only nature, the genetic factors of behavior, but also nurture, the environmental factors of behavior. But how can environmental factors be separate from genetic factors? Don't genetic ...
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Could neurodiversity factors affect individuals' ability to understand various specific abstract concepts?
Wittgenstein was a philosopher who arrived at several insightful questions (e.g. the private-language problem) but seemed to range from clueless to superstitious about transfinite set theory. Non-...
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Why is psychology a parallel to natural science?
This is from Husserl's Phenomenology which he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica:
It is by no means clear from the very outset, however, how far the idea of a pure psychology -as a psychological ...
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"You never know until you try"?
Is it not possible to know our preferences for sure until we try? Do we have to try eating things to know whether or not we actually dislike the foods? Where does this saying stop? Do we have to try e....
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A question on Husserl and animals in relation to psychology
This is from Husserl's Phenomenology which he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica:
The scientific investigation of the bodies of animals fits within this area. By contrast, however, if the psychic ...
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Why is this a reformational claim?
This is from Husserl's Phenomenology, an article he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica:
Together with this philosophical phenomenology, but not yet separated from it, however, there also came into ...
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Is this quirky statement about Freud unfounded?
I was talking to a friend to paraphrase:
"Freud is the kind of guy who had the like the Feynman attitude:
'Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do ...
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Are 'fearless' people a threat to society?
In childhood we are all told legends and myths about different heroes. Most of the time they are portrayed as fearless characters who doesn’t fear anything and sacrifice themselves for their people ...
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Pretending toward a cause to stave off genuine uptake
I’ve been trying to determine if there’s an actual name or phrase for such a concept. Or if there are any examples in history or literature that actually describe or make use of this concept.
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If immoral things shouldn't be done, how come people feel good committing them?
"The forbidden fruit is the sweetest". When we teach someone that something is immoral, the immoral thing becomes appealing to them. People want the things they can't have, so what's the ...
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What Does Zizek Mean by Post-Oedipal capitalism?
Zizek says Post-Oedipal capitalism is the dominant system today, and this is in reference to Deleuze and Guattari's work and issue against Freud. From WP:
Deleuze and Guattari analyze desire and ...
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Does instrumental corruption constitute extra-will multi-agency?
Through my previous question on ideology and instinct, a more fundamental query was encountered. In both individual and collective minds, semantic decay can result in mental threads out of alignment ...
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Is ideological dogma an example of exogenous instinct?
By my current understanding: Individual instinct is instantiated primarily by lower brain systems, which provide motivations of attraction and repulsion toward particular internal and external objects ...
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Reference for a particular anecdote about the cultural basis of the ethics of homicide
I originally posted this on psychology SE but received no response, so I am cross-posting here. It seems appropriate for philosophy SE because the cultural dependence of ethics is generally a subject ...
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Who was the first philosopher who explicitly connected belief with habit formation?
Aristotle speaks about habit but I can't find anywere in his works any explicit connection of habit with belief.
Is there any subsequent philosopher who explicitly connected belief
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Philosophy and personal identity
It seems to me that the concept of personal identity - as a coherent whole - is a corner stone of Western culture. We build a LinkedIn/Facebook/etc. profile to sell a whole personality. We go to ...
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What is the fallacy Carl Jung is alluding to in this passage?
What kind of fallacy did he mean?
We start, for instance with a perfectly reasonable assumption,
such as "NO UNREASONABLE BEING IS FREE" - in other words, has free will.
This is ...
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Does this difficulty with philosophical enquiry compared with natural sciences still exist?
I've just started Hume's "A Treatise on Human Nature" and in the first chapter he speaks of a difficulty faced by philosophers, that physical scientists don't face. The problem being that ...
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How do Rational Egoists Respond to Psychology?
Rational egoism is the position that humans always act rationally and to further the actor's self-interest. But ever since Carl Jung psychologists have pretty much been in agreement that humans do not ...
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Why is ontological relativism so hard to digest for many people (philosophers)?
The nature of reality is something many people like to know. A regious person believes in god(s), a physicist be in particles and fields, or an Aboriginal believes in Dreamtime.
So different cultures ...
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Which Philosophical Ideas Best Protect Us From Existential Suffering in a Society Increasingly Accepting of the Claim That There is No Free Will?
Discussion of free will seems increasingly prevalent in mainstream media, particularly Youtube and in reputable periodicals such as the Atlantic, the Conversation and the Guardian (to name a few).
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Heidegger's being-towards-death?
May I have misunderstood Heidegger philosophy, and I've melted up it with psycology, but isn't the being-towards-death, with the authentic Dasein, an anxious way of life?
I mean, in the moment in ...
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What are some refutations of Husserl’s anti-psychologism?
Husserl argues that psychologism fails through its inability to distinguish between objects of knowledge and acts of knowing, the act being a temporal and psychical process characterized by ...
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How is Society shaped?
I'm interested in what shapes society?
Yes, individuals shape society and society shapes the individual, but I want more detailed analysis.
My humble take is: Culture is the most important thing that ...
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Religious provisions to Jung's "male-female" archetype
In page 69 of his "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious", Jung writes:
The anima image, which lends the mother such superhuman glamour in the eyes of the son, gradually becomes ...
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Locke's psychology : reference request
While histories of philosophy traditionally devote a paragraph to the psychology of each author , it seems to me it is not the case for Locke.
There might be reasons for this: (1) Locke is somewhat ...
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Is there, in Aristotle, a broad concept of thinking ( noèsis) that includes imagination ? Or is imagination a purely sensible power?
In Aristotle's De Anima, Bk. III, Part 3 ( http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.3.iii.html) one can read this :
"Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in ...
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What does "reductionism does not imply constructionism" mean?
In their famous 1976 paper, Marr and Poggio start out by saying:
Complex systems, like a nervous system or a developing embryo, must be analyzed and understood at several different levels. Of course, ...
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The Philosophy of Mutual Dreaming in the New SpongeBob Movie: Ontological as well as Metaphysical?
So, in the movie SpongeBob: Sponge on the Run, Patrick states that:
"Two people cannot have the same dream, let alone be in that same dream at the same time. This is philosophically untenable.&...
