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The mythology of methodology

An essay on the nature of a feeling science

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The purpose of this paper is to interject an alternate mood and basis for the doing of the philosophy of science. The mood is one of ‘feeling’ and the basis is one of Jungian psychology. The paper argues that there are many bases for the doing of the philosophy of science and that the logic of science is only one of these. To dismiss all applications of psychology out of hand with the charge (or label) of psychologism is as bad and as much a disease as psychologism itself.

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  1. Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

    Ian I. Mitroff

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Mitroff, I.I. The mythology of methodology. Theor Decis 2, 274–290 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00137879

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