Overview
- Provides a unified base for discussion of the place of history of psychology within current psychology
- Examines current perspectives on the reciprocal relationship between history and psychology
- Surveys key case studies on the purposes history has in psychological thought
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Annals of Theoretical Psychology (AOTP, volume 14)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory and Practice
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Front Matter
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History at Work
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Psychology
- History of psychology
- History of science
- Historical psychology
- Cultural psychology
- Indigenous psychology
- Psychology and the Humanities
- Variables in psychology
- Teaching history of psychology
- Research assessment in psychology
- Feminism and psychology
- Work psychology in Finland
- Frederic Bartlett
- Early German psychology
- Subjectivity in psychology
- Historical knowledge
About this book
A fundamental question dominates the discussion. Is the purpose of the history of psychology to serve current psychology, rather than to contribute to historical knowledge – and to enter large debates about what historical knowledge means for being human? If the answer is yes, as most psychologists who come to the issues will presume, in what ways? Are these ways philosophically grounded, or do the social and political conditionsof power and funding in universities dominate the arguments? In this volume, the contributors demonstrate the relation between historical investigations and current practice.
Featured topics include:
- The history of psychology and its relation to feminism.
- The history of psychology and its relation to current research assessment and curriculum.
- The history of science and its relation to psychology.
- The metalanguage for psychology.
- Case studies of history in theory construction.
Centrality of History for Theory Construction in Psychology will be of interest to psychologists, professors, graduate psychology students, and scholars in the human sciences.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sven Hroar Klempe is Associate Professor in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His background includes time as full Professor in Musicology, Associate Professor in Media Studies, teacher, and journalist. His research is cross disciplinary, with an emphasis on the history of psychology, culture and psychology, theory of science, communication, and music psychology. His recent book is Kierkegaard and the Rise of Modern Psychology (Transaction, 2014).
Roger Smith is Reader Emeritus in History of Science, Lancaster University, UK, associate of the Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia, and independent scholar. He is a past President of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences. His Fontana/Norton History of the Human Sciences is online at: www.rogersmith.ru. His recent books are Between Mind and Nature: A History of Psychology (Reaktion Books,2013) and Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870-1910 (Pickering & Chatto, 2013). He is currently working on the history of kinaesthesia, the sense of reality, and cultures of movement.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Centrality of History for Theory Construction in Psychology
Editors: Sven Hroar Klempe, Roger Smith
Series Title: Annals of Theoretical Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42760-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42759-1Published: 14 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82657-8Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42760-7Published: 03 November 2016
Series ISSN: 0747-5241
Series E-ISSN: 2512-2207
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 248
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology