ABSTRACT
Frank Richardson’s vast work encompasses an array of cross-disciplinary interests, including but certainly not limited to philosophical hermeneutics, moral philosophy, and relational ontology. In this chapter, Richardson and Sugarman embark on a rich conversation of Richardson’s career trajectory and what it means to be a theoretical psychologist. They continue on to discuss limitations and constraints in the “mainstream” scientific and technological psychological discipline. Much of Richardson’s more recent scholarship takes a multidisciplinary approach in contextualizing the problems of psychology within the neoliberal order. Richardson provides readers insight into alternative ways of thinking about psychology by citing discourse in virtue ethics, hermeneutics, theology, and social theory.
