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How to practise the history of psychology with relative objectivity. Different definitions of science, basic assumptions of the natural-science approach, and assumptions about how science changes. What a critical approach to the history and philosophy of any science entails when practising science.
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- Philosophy of science
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List of figures List of boxes Preface Acknowledgements
Logical positivism and Popper’s falsificationism Kuhn and scienti c revolutions fi Lakatos and Feyerabend: research programmes and anarchism
The sheer amount of information available to today’s psychology student, and the ease with which that information can be obtained, is greater than it has ever been in the past. Though this is no doubt a blessing, it is not without its dangers. In particular, it is easy for the student to become bogged down in a mass of facts and details with little...
The book, as mentioned above, grew out of my undergraduate teaching, and so is aimed at undergraduate psychology students, though I hope that postgraduate students would also nd something of value in it. I have tried to write the book as fi clearly as possible, but it is inevitable that some technical terms will feature in the text. Where these occ...
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This course will provide a selective overview of the history of psychology from the mid-1800s to the present, with earlier forays into the philosophical and practical underpinnings of psychological questions where appropriate.
psychology, introduce sources of data and methods for analyzing historical data, explain for the critical role of theory, and discuss the variety of ways in which psychologists can add historical depth and nuance to their work.
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This paper explores and integrates the concepts learned throughout a course on the history of modern psychology by analyzing psychology’s historical (i.e., Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Post-modernism), philosophical, and empirical underpinnings and their role in helping to shape the important psychological theories and issues of contemporary ...
- Frank Scalambrino
In line with the British Psychological Society’s recent recommendations for teaching the history of psychology, this comprehensive undergraduate textbook emphasizes the philosophical, cultural, and social elements that influenced psychology’s development.
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The aim of this article is to address the issue of the future of the historiography of psychology by proposing an alternative but complementary path for the field, which I call a philosophical history of psychology. In order to achieve this goal, I will first present and discuss the emergence of the social turn in the history of psychology ...
