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PERSONAL CONSTRUCT
THEORY & PRACTICE
Vol.14
2017

An Internet Journal devoted to the Psychology of Personal Constructs

 
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THE DEWEY FAMILY REUNION:
KELLY'S MAN-THE-SCIENTIST MEETS RORTY'S IRONIST


Vladimir Miletić *, Dušan Stojnov **

* Association for Mental Health Promotion, Belgrade, Serbia
** University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia


  



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.




 


About the authors


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



 


Reference

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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