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All genuinely psychological kinds are historically and socioculturally situated in ways that escape the investigative and explanatory modes of natural science. Their understanding requires interpretation of meanings and reasoned argument. The possible fact that one’s hostility might be associated with neural state X2P is not a satisfactory answer to one’s concern about it. If phenomena can be accounted for entirely and satisfactorily on the basis of physical causation alone, such phenomena are not psychological kinds.
And Socrates (ca. ), the Western intellectual tradition, for the most part, has claimed a unique “self ” for each human being. Moreover, it has been assumed that these individual “selves” can be known. Indeed, as Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) proclaimed, it is our business to know ourselves. Contemporary people have taken the Socratic and Quixotic injunction to know our selves very literally. Self studies have become a major scholarly, therapeutic, publishing, and commercial enterprise, even as some postmodernists declare and celebrate the alleged death of the self to a growing market of the self-absorbed.
For somewhat paradoxically, and despite frequent protests about the practical irrelevance of psychological science, one of the primary benefactors of reductive psychological science has been professional psychology. Where scientific psychology has reductively disavowed human agency by removing it from its historical, sociocultural context and treating “isolated atoms” of it as natural kinds, professional psychology has been happy to receive these detached fruits as readily malleable entities that can be instrumentally measured and theorized to provide a scientific basis for their “helping” practices.