A Theory of Self and Personhood for Psychology

Abstract

In the previous chapter, we argued that much contemporary psychology is grounded in tacit assumptions regarding the nature of the self and personhood rather than explicitly examined and articulated ontological conceptions. It was suggested that, for the most part, mainstream psychology retains implicitly commitments to a Hobbesian perspective. This particularly is the case in that it fails to recognize the sociocultural constituents of human action and experience and promotes a compatibilist version of agency that runs afoul of the law of contradiction.