http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Unsolved-Problems-in-Psychology-tp7555188p7563046.html
Carl,
My guess is that Nick can't play the game to anyone's
satisfaction in the order you proposed. He could go down that road, but it will
digress endlessly and readers will become sad. The only way to have things stay
on topic is for someone to propose things until they find one Nick thinks has
been solved.... and only then will he be able to explain in any satisfactory
detail what it means (to him) for that particular problem to be solved. If five
things are found that he thinks are solved, presumably some sort of general
rule will emerge.
Eric
P.S. To flip the question (and please
rename the thread if you take this bait): As far as I am concerned the problem
of the path of a cannon ball shot out of a cannon is solved. It was solved
several hundred years ago, parabolic trajectory, a little wind resistance,
blah, blah, blah. If you think that problem is
not solved, I would love to know the sense in which it is not.
On Wed, May 16, 2012 09:39 PM,
Carl Tollander
<[hidden email]> wrote:
OK, what does it MEAN to you to have solved a problem in psychology?
Are there criteria you can state succinctly?
Where did those criteria come from?
If you really can't say, phlogiston will have to do. Folks were
grappling with how to describe their inner experiences coherently, given
all the other things they were thinking about. I'm not prepared to be
snarky about how they were (or are) deluded, or ignorant, or dim.
All explanations worth their salt start out magical. Somebody,
somewhere, somehow, perceives that the best data they can access or the
best conversations they can find, don't make sense in some newly
understood context, and makes a leap.
C
On 5/16/12 4:25 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> It is the task of science to replace magical explanations by
> scientific ones, isn't it? Chemistry has replaced alchemy,
> astronomy has replaced astrology, neuropsychology has
> replaced phrenology, etc
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mysticpolitics/6333162973/
>
> I must admit I was hoping we could lure Nick
> back to the list from his self-chosen exile by asking
> some provocative questions. What would Nick say,
> are there any unsolved problems in psychology?
> Is there still any phlogiston theory in it which is
> waiting to be replaced?
>
> -J.
>
>
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