The Epistemology of Human Psychological Development

This article deals with some fundamental epistemological problems in psychology; especially connected to how the relationship between biology, psychology and culture may be described and explained. Theories explaining human development have to reflect the biological, psychological and cultural reality and specify the functional relationships between the various aspects during lifespan. The relationships between person and environment and between mind and brain have been recurrent questions in psychological epistemology. In recent years different proposals have been introduced to overcome the epistemological problems concerning these relationships and there are more models that integrate the contradictory positions. Some of the alternatives are presented in the article.