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The value of philosophical questions and critical thinking for understanding the history and philosophy of psychology. Four interrelated themes that summarize the main issues discussed in this chapter: multiple psychologies, reflexive historiography, intersubjective science, and critical thinking. Part 1.
Mar 18, 2022 · Introducing the history and philosophy of psychology -- Ancient and pre-modern psychological thought -- Early-modern psychological thought -- The philosophical and scientific climate in the nineteenth century -- Early natural-science psychology -- Natural-science psychology between the world wars -- Natural-science psychology after world war II ...
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.
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- Historical Psychology Today
- Data from Dead Minds
- Sources of Historical Data
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Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, and has only recently begun seriously grappling with the issue of cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that the roots of cross-cultural variation often lie in the past. Therefore, to understand not just the way, but also why psychology varies, we also need to g...
To explain contemporary behavior and psychology, an increasing number of researchers have found themselves turning to cultural evolutionary theories and historical data. Here, we describe some illustrative examples that link contemporary psychological variation—including cooperation, trust, personality and gender differences—to historical processes...
There are at least two ways in which an engagement with history can be useful for psychologists. In the previous section, we focused on how contemporary cross-cultural psychological patterns might be driven by past cultural or ecological dynamics. In this section, we turn to a discussion of how traces of past cognition can be extracted from histori...
It is helpful to think of historical data in terms of a spectrum from unstructured to structured. Fully unstructured data consists of uninterpreted artifacts or physical texts from the past, the raw data upon which scholarly interpretation is built. As the identity and function of artifacts are inferred, or texts are deciphered, standardized and i...
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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.
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 ...
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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 ...
