Since the 2010's Psychology is in a replication crisis. There is an active debate within the discipline to "solve" the crisis. I argue that so far, most of the debate has been ignorant about the...Show moreSince the 2010's Psychology is in a replication crisis. There is an active debate within the discipline to "solve" the crisis. I argue that so far, most of the debate has been ignorant about the real problem causing the crisis. Roughly the crisis literature be grouped into a replication, a normativity and a validity crisis (Lundh, 2019). Most authors focus on the first to issues. While in reality the current crisis is a validity crisis, the method’s of psychology pass by the nature of its problem (chapter 1). I show through the work of Edmund Husserl how the problem arises as a consequence of the Galilean method of natural science (chapter 2). Then, I show how in psychology’s history the naturalism, which arose with the scientific revolution, kept it stuck in a perpetual crisis causing a perpetual cycle of revolutions (Introspectionism, Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Enactvisim) (chapter 3). Lastly, I sketch out Husserl’s proposed solution to break the cycle and arrive at scientific psychology on new terms which capture the essence of the mind as essentially subjective (chapter 4).Show less
