How to operationalize a person

Publication date: Available online 15 November 2016 Source:New Ideas in Psychology Author(s): Mark H. Bickhard The notion of operationally defining a person is absurd, but no more so than other uses of “operationalization”. ‘Persons’ make that absurdity particularly clear because there is no sense in which persons can be directly observed, nor defined in terms of what might be observable, and thereby exposes the emptiness of the idea of operationalization more broadly. On the other hand, persons can be modeled, and their ontology investigated, within frameworks that can address the processes and organizations that actually constitute persons.

Source: New Ideas in Psychology - November 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research