Critique of Worldviews

The constitution and structure of scientific reasoning can be made explicit by virtue of a change in epistemic attitude. Critique of science requires an approach that transcends individual research concerns and instead focuses on the meaning of inquiry as a whole. This point of view may be addressed as the meta-attitude of rigour. To establish it, the concept of rigour is explored through a phenomenological lens. It allows to reflect on the disciplinarity of psychology as well as on its claim to exactitude. The elucidation of presuppositions in psychological research prepares a systematic revision of the discipline’s history according to the criterion of rigorousness.