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An Ontological Turn for Psychology in the age of the Machine and Global Warming

2023-02-13

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This essay pays homage to indigenous psychology by reiterating its central theme—decolonization—through a variant of the theme in the call for an ontological turn. Ontology refers to human’s basic commitments and assumptions about reality, namely what things are, and what they could be. It is argued that ontologies have consequences. The ontology of objects privileged in science facilitates the acquisition of obje...

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DOI: 10.32388/yji03s

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