The uncertainty principle in psychology: foundations and challenges

Abstract

The uncertainty category representation in methodology of science including psychology as well as the bases for understanding of human behavior and thinking self-causality are considered. Self-causality is understood in connection with an uncertainty assumption in the context of M.K. Mamardashvili’s notions of non-classical ideal of rationality as an opposition to both classical version of causality principle and indeterminism. The uncertainty principle role in overcoming reductionism in psychology is shown. Uncertainty tolerance, openness and non-predetermined outcome of any choice regulatory profiles, voluntary and self-defined actions are shown to be primary conditions of human activity in modern world.