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Mapping the Development of PsychologyIvan Flis
PhD Candidate in History and Philosophy of Psychology
PSI Early Graduate Group Conference 27-28 February 2015
The Descartes Centre
for the History and Philosophy
of the Sciences and the Humanities
Outline
One map
One (hi)story
A few take-home messages (hopefully)
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Short digression into my projectThe maps (1)
The maps (2)What do they teach us?
Let’s see on an example from the 1950s.
Outline
One map
One (hi)story
A few take-home messages
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How did we end up with behavioral science?
Social science?
Behavioral science?
Based on, with permission, Jeff Pooley’s unpublished paper A “Not Particularly Felicitous” Phrase: A History of the “Behavioral Sciences” Label presented at a symposium in 2012. Link: http://jeffpooley.com/pubs/pooley-behavioral-sciences.pdf
Or how did the Ford Foundation coin the new name for objectivity in the 1950s
Connotations of socialism!Speculative and pre-scientific!
Palpable to biologists and other non-social scientists.Firmly rooted in quantitative methodologies.
Palpable to psychologists who resisted the moniker of social science
And note, this objectivity was powered by $417 million in assets
Outline
One map
One (hi)story
A few take-home messages
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Take-home messages
Psychology, as any other science, is socially and historically contingent.
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Be critical!
Do not disenfranchise yourself with myths of objectivity!