O status da psicologia na perspectiva de Sigmund Koch

Abstract

The proposal of this dissertation is to present the main discussions about the status of the field of psychological knowledge based on the contributions of the North American science philosopher and psychologist Sigmund Koch (1917-1996). For this purpose, we analyzed the main conceptions and arguments presented by Koch in his discussion about the construction of psychological knowledge in twentieth century. While carrying out this research we used as our source of analysis all publications of Koch regarding this topic. Furthermore, with the aim of contextualization about the theme and the author‟s perspective, we consulted secondary sources, papers published by authors that discuss the same topic in the context of Koch and others that refer to its work. In face of this, the discussions that permeate this study are about the arguments presented by Koch to justify his assessment of the field of psychological knowledge and his proposal to call psychology, psychological studies, which for him means defining in a honest and coherent way.