The subject of this paper is the concept of development in life span psychology. The claim was put forward that the picture of human development presented by contemporary developmental psychology is unsatisfactory, and that the reason for this is the incompatibility of the methodological paradigm of natural sciences adopted by psychology with the specificity of the object of study of developmental psychology. An analysis of the nature of development within Bernard Kaplan’s genetic-dramatism perspective and John R. Searle’s theory of mind and social reality was presented. Also, its methodological implications were delineated, drawing attention to the attempt of both perspectives to coordinate the logic of cause and effect with the one of intention, purposes and aims in studying human development.
The present article is a critical commentary of Prof. Elżbieta Dryll’s paper Narrative Psychology on Development. The main goal of these considerations was to draw attention to the importance of theoretical reflection on development within the perspective of narrative psychology. Such reflection – although implied by the title of Prof. Dryll’s paper and explicit in her declaration that narrative psychology is “a plane for construing theory of human development” – was not the object of a comprehensive analysis. This shortage was then the reason to draw attention to topics and problems of importance to the theory of human development based on the assumptions of narrative psychology. These are problems such as theoretical and methodological consequences of the “narrative turn” that took place within the paradigm of social constructionism. This commentary also deals in a more detailed manner with consequences of three theses put forward by Prof. Dryll that are characteristic for narrative stance in viewing of the human development.
Międzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie Badań Poznawczych z siedzibą w Rosji przy współudziale Rosyjskiej Akademii Nauk, Uniwersytetu w St. Petersburgu oraz Cognitive Science Society już po raz drugi zorganizowało w Rosji konferencję, która pozwoliła zaprezentować dorobek badawczy i teoretyczny reprezentantów różnych dyscyplin naukowych, połączonych zainteresowaniem umysłem i naturą poznania. W przeciwieństwie do pierwszej konferencji (Kazań nad Wołgą, 2004 rok), tegoroczna konferencja, która odbyła się w dniach 9–13 czerwca w St. Petersburgu, zgromadziła znacznie szersze oraz w pełni międzynarodowe grono badaczy reprezentujących cognitive science. Liczba prezentacji była rzeczywiście imponująca i z górą trzykrotnie przewyższała dorobek pierwszej konferencji.
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