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To Think Human out of the Machine Paradigm: Homo Ex Machina

Kohler, Alaric

In: Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2010, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 39-57

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    Titre
    • To Think Human out of the Machine Paradigm: Homo Ex Machina
    Auteur
    • Kohler, Alaric. Institute of Psychology and Education, University of Neuchâtel, Espace L. Agassiz 1, 2001, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2010, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 39-57. Springer-Verlag
    Autre version électronique
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:320651
    Summary
    This article attempts to show that the metaphorical conception of human being as a machine takes a very specific epistemological standpoint. To make short the complex task of considering the implication of this paradigm for psychological and behavioral sciences, three important mismatches between the machine and the living human will be considered. Experience, agency and plasticity of human being are excluded in the scientific models and research activities when they are situated in the machine paradigm. For this reason, I claim that the machine paradigm does not offer the relevant frame for integrating results from various domains or approaches within human sciences, even if it can sometimes produce relevant scientific knowledge in certain domain at the scale of detailed investigation. Due to the importance of overcoming the fragmentation of scientific knowledge to solve the crisis in psychology, an "organic paradigm” should be elaborated which provides a new epistemological framework