Process, coherence, everyday life and qualia as explanatory challenges for psychology

Abstract

This article discusses four explanatory challenges for psychology at a theoretical level: first, the need to move towards historical and process explanations; second, the need to observe strict standards of explanatory coherence; third, the urgency of addressing phenomena in the field of everyday life; and fourth, the need to account for phenomena in the order of qualia and experience. First, the article explores some difficulties in identifying challenges around which psychology as a whole may converge. Subsequently, it examines the achievements consolidated in the psychological discipline as a way to approach the identification of theoretical challenges of general relevance. Finally, a section is devoted to each of the aforementioned theoretical challenges. The article concludes with final considerations.