Emotion and Memory: The “Second Cognitive Revolution”

Part 2.

Szerkesztő:
Péter Bodor

This thematic section contains four articles that seek to contextualize and interpret Rom Harré’s programmatic essay, which was published in Hungarian in the previous issue of Replika, together with critical reflections written by Hungarian philosophers and linguists. In this second rejoinder, Hungarian psychologists analyze Harré’s theory. The first article, titled “Beyond Ether: The Social Constructivist Conception of Cognition” and written by Péter Bodor, identifies various social constructionist ideas within the history of psychology and compares two recent versions of social constructionism: the one developed by Jeff Coulter and the other, advocated by Rom Harré. Csaba Pléh’s contribution, “For a Narrative or Discoursive Renewal?”, revolves around the issue whether is it possible to be social constructionist and anti-Cartesian, and still work with the concept of “mind”. In Tibor Pólya’s interpretation, presented in the essay “Psychology Outside the Self”, Harré’s discursive psychology is parallel to behaviorism, although its stress on social processes makes it unique. In her paper, “The Return of the Classical View of Remembering”, Anikó Kónya explores a few features in Harre’s conceptualization of memory and remembering, and shows how they are related to the “classical theories” of remembering.

Released: Replika 26, 103–145.