Doubtfulness – A Dialogical Perspective

• Authors: Małgorzata Puchalska-Wasyl , Piotr Oleś
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The current globalizing world stimulates many doubts. Doubtfulness is a starting point for inner dialogue. Internal dialogical activity often reduces the experience of uncertainty by integration of contrasting ideas. Sometimes, however, the result is quite opposite - doubts grow rather than being reduced. The paper proposes a dialogical model of doubtfulness and presents empirical findings which are consistent with the model. Additionally, the functions of doubtfulness and internal dialogue in philosophy and science are discussed. On one hand, as empirical results show, doubtfulness can be linked to anxiety which blocks human thinking and acting. On the other hand, as exemplified by Galileo, doubt demands a deeper analysis of the situation and is conducive to human development, in personal or even in socio-cultural space.

Keywords

EN

doubtfulness; internal dialogue; dialogicality; dialogical model of doubtfulness

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Psychology of Language and Communication
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 101-113

Dates

published

2013-09-01

online

2013-09-06

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Puchalska-Wasyl

• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

author

Piotr Oleś

• Faculty of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/plc-2013-0007