Centrality of History for Theory Construction in Psychology
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the purpose of history for psychology. Its purpose is to ask why history should be of concern to psychologists in teaching and research, and in theory and in practice. The future position of humanities subjects
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Sven Hroar Klempe Roger Smith Editors
Centrality of History for Theory Construction in Psychology
Annals of Theoretical Psychology
Series Editors Craig W. Gruber, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Matthew G. Clark, United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, USA Sven Hroar Klempe, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Sven Hroar Klempe • Roger Smith Editors
Centrality of History for Theory Construction in Psychology
Editors Sven Hroar Klempe Department of Psychology Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway
Roger Smith Institute of Philosophy Moscow, Russia
Annals of Theoretical Psychology ISBN 978-3-319-42759-1 ISBN 978-3-319-42760-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42760-7
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Preface
Research and teaching in the history of psychology are in a challenging position. For some psychologists, history has not just significance but fundamental standing. Yet, most psychologists, it may well be, do not think history has much to say directly to them. In this collection of essays, we seek to raise the level of discussion about what the standing should be. For this purpose, we have to keep in view both the intellectual arguments about the relation of history to a science and profession of psychology and the practical, or political and administrative, conditions that currently affect the time and resources given to history of psychology. At first glance, historical work appears vulnerable to dismissal from
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