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#17 – Lulie Tanett: Epistemology in the Social Sciences, Mindfulness and Taking Children Seriously

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The Importance of Memes in Psychology

You gave a talk titled applied philosophy about 12 years ago and people can watch it on YouTube where you discuss some of these ideas we've been talking about. In that talk you say quote, any one of us could revolutionize psychology by writing a book or paper and memes. And what about neurology you said that psychology would do well to study its foundations which is not neurology but epistemology. Why would you say that? Because if you're interpreting people and people behavior, just as these dumb mechanistic things then that is ignoring the vast majority of what a person is.

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