The Affiliation of Psychology with Philosophy and with the Natural Sciences

Hall, Geoffrey

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“…They placed articles in which they praised the "New Psychology," defined its subject matter, and proclaimed its scientific promise in journals such as Science, Nature, and Popular Scientific Monthly and in broader popular magazines such as Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and North American Review. They wrote hundreds of articles about psychology's status among the sciences and its relations to various sciences, education, logic, medicine, industry, and advertising (e.g., see Fullerton, 1896;Griffing, 1896;Hall, 1906b;Mills, 1908Mills, -1909Pace, 1902;Sanford, 1903; A. E. Taylor, 1906;Yerkes, 1910). It is not overdra-matizing to say that they were self-consciously engaged in a battle for intellectual and disciplinary survival.…”

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Testing the limits of sense and science: American experimental psychologists combat spiritualism, 1880-1920.

Coon¹

2002

Evolving Perspectives on the History of Psychology.

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Since its inception, experimental psychology has occupied a precaria ous place in the hierarchy of the sciences. It is well-known that whereas sociology sat at the peak of the Comtian hierarchy, psychology was not even on the pyramid, having been deemed incapable of becoming a science because its subject matter was unquantifiable and its methods mired in a metaphysical morass. Psychology has never quite lived this down and, as

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Section: Spiritualismmentioning

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Testing the limits of sense and science: American experimental psychologists combat spiritualism, 1880-1920.

Coon¹

2002

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“…The special responsibilities of psychologists included the discovery of desirable human attributes and methods for readjusting the environment to human needs (Hall, 1917(Hall, , 1919a(Hall, , 1919b(Hall, , 1923. As "queen of the sciences" psychology would promote the unity of knowledge, would bridge pure and practical research, and would embrace a pluralism of systems (Hall, 1906(Hall, , 1908(Hall, , 1919b(Hall, , 1920b(Hall, , 1923. Accordingly, he called the psychologist "a sort of high priest of souls" who "is not content merely to fit men for existing institutions as they are to-day" but would "develop even higher powers, which gradually molt old and evolve new and better institutions or improve old ones" (1923, p. 436).…”

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Assessing psychology's moral heritage through our neglected utopias.

Morawski¹

2002

Evolving Perspectives on the History of Psychology.

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The centennial of experimental psychology in 1979 heightened interest in the discipline's history by offering the psychologist lore about precursors, innovations, controversies, and great achievements. Paralleling these centennial events has been a growing concern with the state of scholarship in the history of psychology, particularly with histories that primarily document or celebrate intellectual milestones. Such ceremonial histories typically acknowledge the purported antecedents of currently dominant positions within psychology. Whether spawned by purely intellectual or partisan interests, these "presentist" or "conventional" histories have yielded an insular conception of psychology, one that lacks meaning in the broader context of historical events (Stocking, 1965; Young, 1966). However unintentionally, they have also contributed to psychologists' relative ignorance about the social, political, and moral background of their science. The all but forgotten utopias of

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“…They placed articles in which they praised the “New Psychology,” defined its subject matter, and proclaimed its scientific promise in journals such as Science, Nature, and Popular Scientific Monthly and in broader popular magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and North American Review. They wrote hundreds of articles about psychology’s status among the sciences and its relations to various sciences, education, logic, medicine, industry, and advertising (e.g., see Fullerton, 1896; Griffing, 1896; Hall, 1906b; Mills, 1908–1909; Pace, 1902; Sanford, 1903; A. E. Taylor, 1906; Yerkes, 1910).…”

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Testing the limits of sense and science: American experimental psychologists combat spiritualism, 1880–1920.

Coon¹

1992

American Psychologist

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American psychologists faced great difficulty at the turn of the century as they tried to erect and maintain boundaries between their science and its "pseudoscientific" counterparts-spiritualism and psychic research. The public solicited their opinions regarding spiritualism, and a few psychologists wanted to conduct serious investigations of spiritualistic and psychic phenomena. However, many psychologists believed that such investigation risked the scientific reputation of their infant discipline. Because they could not readily avoid the topic, some psychologists studied spiritualistic and psychic phenomena in order to prove them fraudulent or explain them via naturalistic causes, and others developed a new subdiscipline, the psychology of deception and belief. This article argues that psychologists used their battles with spiritualists to legitimize psychology as a science and create a new role for themselves as guardians of the scientific worldview.

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The Affiliation of Psychology with Philosophy and with the Natural Sciences

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Testing the limits of sense and science: American experimental psychologists combat spiritualism, 1880-1920.

Testing the limits of sense and science: American experimental psychologists combat spiritualism, 1880-1920.

Assessing psychology's moral heritage through our neglected utopias.

Testing the limits of sense and science: American experimental psychologists combat spiritualism, 1880–1920.

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