TO THE QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY AS A SPHERE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE SUBSTANTIATION

Abstract

Today, the issues of psychological science remain multifaceted, due to both the progress of psychological scientific knowledge and the demands placed on science in today's conditions. In this context, especially important became problems of the psychological research methodology, the empirical research principles definition, which is what the philosophy of psychology. This area of scientific psychological knowledge is present in the proximity of universities in our country in the cycle of future psychologist’s professional training, which again emphasizes the relevance of this issue. Philosophy of psychology is not exclusively a new direction of psychological knowledge. It was previously represented by such headings as "methodology of psychology", "theoretical and methodological problems of psychology" in research, publications, etc. However, today, in the crisis in which modern society finds itself, the scientific psychological research methodological positions revision requires the general principles of methodological analysis specification, which is carried out within the philosophy of psychology [2, 8].