A guided science : history of psychology in the mirror of its making / Jaan Valsiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valsiner, Jaan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--History.

Psychology.

History.

Science--History.

Science.

Physical Description:

xx, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, [2012]

Summary:

This monograph on the history of science examines the effect of external social forces on the definition of science and explores the ways in which modern social pressures--to publish, to retain rights, and to monetize science--corrupt the process of knowledge development and discovery. Basing his work in the field of psychology, Valsiner divides the material into sections covering presentations and histories of science in society, psychology as a liminal science, and transcending the past. Individual chapters address topics such as axiomatic bases for experimental knowledge construction, psychology and philosophy in the search for wissenschaft, and globalization and its role in science. Valsiner is a professor of psychology at Clark University. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Part I Societies and Sciences: Presentations and Histories 1

1 The Eternal Freedom Movement of Ideas 5

2 Axiomatic Bases for Experiential (Empirical) Knowledge Construction 13

3 Objectivity and Social Forgetfulness 29

4 Pathways to Evidence: Negotiation of Knowledge between Its Producers and Consumers 53

Part II The Mirror in the Making: Psychology as a Liminal Science 75

5 From Enlightenment to Struggle: Psychology and Philosophy in the Search of Wissenschaft 79

6 The Birth of a Troubled Wissenschaft: Emerging Psychology in Its German Context 109

7 Between Poetry and Science: Locating Geisteswissenschaft on the Map of Knowledge 135

8 Psychology in a Perpetual Crisis 153

Part III Facing the Future-Transcending the Past 171

9 Learning from the Fate of Psychology 175

10 Pathways to Methodologies: Semiotics of Knowledge Construction 195

11 Globalization and Its Role in Science 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412842907

1412842905

OCLC:

727126720