Introduction: Examined Live – An Epistemological Exchange Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology on Reflection

Abstract

AQ2The abstract is published online only. If you did not include a short abstract for the online version when you submitted the manuscript, the first paragraph or the first 10 lines of the chapter will be displayed here. If possible, please provide us with an informative abstract.Since the famous passage in which Socrates (Plato 1997) says that the unexamined, and therefore nonreflected, life is not worth living, "reflection" has been a diffuse and iterant term in ethics, moral philosophy, epistemology, political philosophy (Tiberius 2008; Skorupski 2010), but also in psychology (Marsico et al. 2015). This volume opens a new perspective on the topic of reflection, considering the most recent approaches in both philosophy (namely in epistemology) and cultural psychology.

Decoloniality and Disruption of the Scientific Status Quo: Dissemination of Universal Theoretical Assumptions in International Research

“…In psychological science, we need a critical reflection about the limits of the modernity project, that is constructing a universal epistemic subject while running the risk of producing epistemic injustice (Silva Filho & Tateo, 2019). For this, we consider that, “The complex of groups and activities that we call science can no longer be conceived as a form of anthropic domination and exploitation of an alien nature.…”