Farewell to TOM: Ben Bradley's Revolutionary Poetics and the Fuzzy World of Development

Bradley's (1993) analysis of ‘theories of mind’ contains the beginning of a serious reconstruction of psychology from a developmental point of view. Nevertheless, such reconstruction efforts may become hostages to social rhetorics themselves, and some possible lines of theoretical construction that may avoid such danger are pointed out (e.g. systematically developmental perspective, explication of the research processes).