Further Thoughts on the Psychology—Biology Relationship
Abstract
In concluding this response, I must say that at times I have found myself uncomfortable juxtaposing psychology and psychological with biology and biological, as if one precludes the other or the two are in competition with one another. There is much in psychology that is biological and, as Wolski suggests, much in biology that is psychological. As Strelau suggests, rather than being viewed as in competition with one another or as one having hegemony over the other, it seems most profitable to view phenomena as capable of being understood at different levels with utility in the conduct of research on the relations among levels.
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