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[Tiberiusmoon]

Posts about psychology and the study of cognitive function got me wondering about various studies of how we think and process information.
If we studied psychology we can understand the perspectives of others in greater detail during a debate or how idea's are made.

What do you think?

[Terrapin Station]

Psychology helps us understand philosophical views and why people claim what they do, especially when they claim things that seem rather odd. There's a taboo about focusing on this, but the taboo is fairly ridiculous, because we really can't separate views believed/expressed, as well as how they're expressed, and psychological facts.

[LuckyR]

Posts about psychology and the study of cognitive function got me wondering about various studies of how we think and process information.
If we studied psychology we can understand the perspectives of others in greater detail during a debate or how idea's are made.

What do you think?

Psychology is where philosophy and behavior collide.

[Tiberiusmoon]

Psychology is where philosophy and behavior collide.

Rather collide why not build a study that bridges the gap to create understanding?

[Steve3007]

I agree pretty much with what's been said so far. It's interesting that the forum rules contain a prohibition against speculating about other posters' personal mental state which could sometimes be interpreted as a prohibition against speculating on a poster's psychological reasons for saying what they've said. It sometimes comes down to whether particular words are deemed to be pejorative or simply descriptive.

Obviously one of the problems in saying "you said that because your brain works like this..." is that it's not something that can really be answered with an argument. The other person can only either agree or disagree that that's how their brain works.

[LuckyR]

Psychology is where philosophy and behavior collide.

Rather collide why not build a study that bridges the gap to create understanding?

Psychology bridges the gap, that's my point.

[LuckyR]

I agree pretty much with what's been said so far. It's interesting that the forum rules contain a prohibition against speculating about other posters' personal mental state which could sometimes be interpreted as a prohibition against speculating on a poster's psychological reasons for saying what they've said. It sometimes comes down to whether particular words are deemed to be pejorative or simply descriptive.

Obviously one of the problems in saying "you said that because your brain works like this..." is that it's not something that can really be answered with an argument. The other person can only either agree or disagree that that's how their brain works.

Is it really so difficult to instead say, "why did you say that, I ask because many folk's brains work like so?"

[Tiberiusmoon]

Psychology bridges the gap, that's my point.

Ah I see, when you say collide it makes me think about collision and how it stops the path both objects take, as if to say it stops the progression of understanding because A conflicts/clashes with B.

[Asif]

All philosophy boils down to psychology.
Philosophy,religion,worldview always boil down to the individuals psyche and upbringing.