Phenomenological personality theories and the data language of psychology.

Abstract

"The aims of this paper are threefold: to support the position that phenomenological theories of personality are compatible with the general scientific requirements of physicialism and predictiveness, to demonstrate that a fundamental methodological distinction between these theories and non-phenomenological theories is difficult to maintain, and, finally, to suggest that a crucial issue intrinsic to a discussion of the problems mentioned above[long dash]and one rarely raised in that connection[long dash]is the nature of the psychological data language traditionally favored by S-R and R-R theories.".