• ARTICLES, Special Section, XIIIth Biennial Conference of the EPCA - 2016

Theoretical identity is not just belonging.

Giliberto, M.

Keywords:
theoretical identity, epistemology, research programme, personal constructs psychology, cognitivism

Abstract:
Over the past few years, many voices have claimed that PCP should enter into the mainstream of cognitivism. This paper identifies, at least, three planes involved in this debate: political, historical and epistemological. The problem of where one theory ends and another one begins is examined particularly from the epistemological perspective. Theoretical identity, according to this perspective, is dealt with not merely as being a part of one particular community, but as a way of experience.