I will be offering this 10-week seminar starting in the last week of September. It’s the first time I’m running something like this outside of an institution, and I think I’ll only be able to do it once a year. During this course, we’ll be addressing some of the foundational questions in general psychology as…
Category: history of psychology
On Hijacking Science (E. E. Gantt & R. N. Williams)
I have written a review and summary of this book on Medium. In future posts, I am planning to select specific passages from the book and explore questions regarding science, scientific communication, and scientism. This slim, engaging, and valuable book belongs in the book series, Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, edited by Brent D. Slife….
Jeff Sugarman on Psychologism
In his Chapter, An Historical Turn in Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology, Jeff Sugarman (2019) begins by distinguishing three different approach to historiography (borrowing from Nikolas Rose). Among the three approaches, he introduces and adopts ‘critical history’. One of the aims of critical history is to explicate styles of reasoning that are operating in the background…
You Do not Stand Alone
Reflections on: Natsoulas, T. (2005). The Varieties of Religious Experience considered from the perspective of James’s account of the stream of consciousness. In R. D. Ellis & N. Newton (Eds.), Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice, and Selective Perception (pp. 303-325). John Benjamins Publishing. In a brief address, published in Psychological Review in 1943, E. L. Thorndike attempts…
Philosophical History
A review of Martin Farrell’s “Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Psychology“, Cambridge, 2014. July 24, 2015 The brief summer course is coming to its end and it is an appropriate time to write about the book I used as the only required reading for the course. Choosing the book was not easy. When I was the teaching assistant for the…