@article {Bronckart:1 November 2002:0210-9395:387,
	author = "Bronckart, Jean Paul",
	title = "La explicacion en psicologia ante el desafio del significado Psychological explanation before the challenge of meaning",
	journal = "Estudios de Psicología",
	volume = "23",
	year = "1 November 2002",
	abstract = "En este art&#237;culo se indagan los fundamentos de la psicolog&#237;a cient&#237;fica, a trav&#233;s de las relaciones entre el mundo, el pensamiento y el lenguaje. Para ello, parte de los fil&#243;sofos griegos hasta llegar al siglo XIX, momento en que emergen las problem&#225;ticas hist&#243;rica y evolucionista, pero igualmente una posici&#243;n radicalmente contradictoria: el positivismo. Desde la l&#243;gica del fraccionamiento y la atomizaci&#243;n, nacen las ciencias humanas/sociales, elaboradas sobre la base de la posici&#243;n reaccionaria y est&#225;tica de Comte, m&#225;s que sobre la posici&#243;n din&#225;mica e hist&#243;rica heredada de Darwin. Es preciso por tanto revisar la arquitectura de las ciencias humanas en tres niveles: El primero tiene como dominio de aplicaci&#243;n las preconstrucciones hist&#243;ricas humanas. El segundo se refiere a los medios que las comunidades humanas se dan para asegurar la transmisi&#243;n y reproducci&#243;n de esas preconstrucciones. El &#250;ltimo se refiere a los efectos de la transmisi&#243;n de las preconstrucciones colectivas sobre la constituci&#243;n y desarrollo de las personas. <P></P>This paper inquires upon the foundations of scientific psychology by an examination of the relationships among the world, thought and language. This is done via a historical reconstruction starting with some contributions of classic Greek philosophers and reaching the 19th century, when historic and evolutionist approaches emerge, together with another radically opposed school of thought: positivism. Human/social sciences were then given birth from a logic of partitioning and atomisation, and were elaborated upon Comte's reactionary and static approach, instead that on the dynamic and historical approach coming from Darwin. Therefore there is a need to revise the architecture of the human sciences taking into account three levels. The first takes human historical preconstructions as its domain of application. The second refers to the means human communities give to themselves in order to make sure the transmission and reproduction of these preconstructions is carried out efficiently. And the last one refers to the effects the transmission of these collective preconstructions have upon the constitution and development of individual persons.",
	pages = "387-416(30)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/fias/edp/2002/00000023/00000003/art00007"
	doi = "doi:10.1174/021093902762224452"
}