History versus Physics, with Isabela Granic and Sam Biagetti
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
00:00
Freud's Asymmetry in Psychology
Psychology is behaving like a historical science, whereas in the 20th century under B.F. Skinner and people like that, they attempted to emulate an experimental science. And I think that distinction is really interesting and important because it gives us a bit of a lens or is this microcosm of where things can go wrong when you take the wrong assumptions in your scientific view. So long as we trace development from its final outcome backwards, the chain of events appears continuous; but if we proceed forward causality then we no longer get the impression of an inevitable sequence of events which could not have been otherwise determined. We notice at once that there might have been another result and that we might have
Transcript
Play full episode
