Theoretical psychology, systematology, and phenomenological variation

Eckart Scheerer

pp. 47-61

in: Hans van Rappard, Pieter van Strien, Leendert Mos, William J. Baker (eds), Annals of theoretical psychology, Berlin, Springer, 1993

Abstract

Rappard has written a stimulating chapter raising so many issues that a commentary doing justice to all of them would have to be as long as the chapter itself. Unfortunately, I do not have an overall account of the implications of the history of psychology for theoretical psychology that I could offer as an alternative to Rappard's viewpoint. I have, therefore, decided to focus on three separate issues that do not bear any obvious systematic relationship to each other, except that they all came to my mind while reading Rappard's essay.