Psychology and epistemology

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to determine the positions of the epistemology of psychology. It is formulated on the basis of ideas of Н. Ball, and the ideas of V. Roments are the means of achieving it. It is stated that the “subject-object” relation studied in epistemology is a “subject-subject” relation in psychology. Psychology falls into the circle of knowledge, obvious when it solves the problem of man, and turns out to be outside of epistemology. The logic of psychological cognition is studied in its form that different from natural science. Taking into account the content of the category of practice in the thinking of psychologists, the stages of this process are distinguished. It is affirms that the human problem requires think category of practice in its enriched by the idea of the direct presence of human in being and cognition form. The place of psychology among other sciences and its intended function as an anthropological discipline with extensive interdisciplinary connections are outlined. The positions of the epistemology of psychology, designed to serve the knowledge of human, are formulated.