id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_wciwx5u23vcrrllfvwzidbva3m Uljana Feest Phenomena and Objects of Research in the Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences 2017 12 .pdf application/pdf 5580 342 53 two assumptions are fairly widespread: first, research efforts are mainly directed toward explaining phenomena, and second, the explanations in question are likely to be mechanistic. expression "object of research" from the more commonly used "phenomenon," arguing that in the existing literature the latter term is used in an ambiguous fashion, which can result in the conflation of several distinct philosophical issues, thereby detracting from some of the roles that phenomena play in say that objects of research are epistemically blurry, I do not mean that scientists lack a theoretical explanation for an already clearly delineated empirical explanandum but that the very question that empirical data are even I argue that experimentally created phenomena often function as evidence in the course of scientific attempts to provide empirical descriptions of objects of research. in the context of research practices in psychology, phenomena are not always "objects of discovery and explanation," as Bogen and Woodward initially thought. ./cache/work_wciwx5u23vcrrllfvwzidbva3m.pdf ./txt/work_wciwx5u23vcrrllfvwzidbva3m.txt