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THE DEWEY FAMILY REUNION:
KELLY'S MAN-THE-SCIENTIST MEETS RORTY'S IRONIST
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Vladimir Miletić *,
Dušan Stojnov ** |
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* Association for Mental Health Promotion, Belgrade, Serbia
** University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia |
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Abstract
Kelly and Rorty share similar and compatible philosophical positions,
based on their common pragmatic ancestry, particularly due to influences of
John Dewey’s thought. We will show how, based on these similarities, we can
draw parallels between Rorty’s conception of the eternally self-doubting ironist
and her constructivist counterpart, Kelly’s man-the-scientist. Understanding
liberal irony may prove fruitful in explicating and developing a constructivist
theory of the subject; several features of the ironist will be considered as potential
constituents of subjects created in personal construct psychotherapy. Goals of
the psychotherapeutic process will be reconsidered in the light of these
findings.
Key words: Personal construct theory, subjectivity, neopragmatism, relationality.
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About the authors
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Vladimir
Miletić, M.D. is a Belgrade-based psychotherapist and
research director at the Association for Mental Health Promotion. He has published
numerous articles in the field of psychiatric epidemiology and is the co-editor
of the Handbook of LGBT Psychology (2015). Since 2015, he teaches at the
Serbian Constructivist Association.
Contact: vdmiletic@gmail.com
Dušan
Stojnov, professor
at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Belgrade. He is currently a member
of editorial boards of Journal of Constructivist
Psychology & e-journal Personal
Construct Theory & Practice. He served as a member of editorial board
in Serbian Journal for Educational
Research from 1996 to 2010. He is also a founder and president of Serbian Constructivist Association (SCA)
from 1995 to date.
Contact: dusanstojnov@sbb.rs
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Miletić, V., Stojnov, D..(2017). The Dewey family reunion: Kelly's man-the-scientist meets Rorty's ironist.
Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 14, 106-115, 2017
(Retrieved from http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp17/miletic17.pdf)
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