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313TheCommodification of Genocide: Part II. A neo-Gramscian ModelInternational Journal of Humanities and Social Science 5 (5): 1-9. 2015.
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863In the Shadow of the Enlightenment. I. Reimarus against the EpicureansJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 10 3-15. 1974.
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6An Education in Psychology: James McKeen Cattell's Journal and Letters from Germany and England, 1880-1888. James McKeen Cattell, Michael M. Sokal (review)Isis 72 (4): 666-667. 1981.
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30Review of William Stern (1871–1938): A brief introduction to his life and works (review)Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 33 (2): 125-129. 2013.
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56Hermann Lotze’s Gestalt Metaphysics in Light of the Schelling and Hegel Renaissance (1838–1841)Idealistic Studies 40 (1-2): 163-188. 2010.Situating Lotze in the School of Speculative Theology, I use debates about Schelling’s critique of Hegel—then and now—to understand Lotze’s critique of Hegel. Lotze’s early metaphysics seems to employ a version of Hegel’s dialectical analysis of being, phenomena, and mind emphasizing “the interconnection of things.” One can equally argue that he proceeds in an analytic style of reviewing and testing alternative theories. My tentative conclusion is that he assumes the existence of reality (the Ab…Read more
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3The Problematic Science: Psychology in Nineteenth-Century Thought (edited book)Greenwood/Prager. 1982.
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9B. F. Skinner and Behaviorism in American Culture (edited book)Associated Universities Press/Lehigh. 1996.This book is about the eminent behavioral scientist B. F. Skinner, the American culture in which he lived and worked, and the behaviorist movement that played a leading role in American psychological and social thought during the twentieth century. From a base of research on laboratory animals in the 1930s, Skinner built a committed and influential following as well as a utopian movement for social reform. His radical ideas attracted much public attention and generated heated controversy. By the…Read more
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15Knowledge, Belief, and Aesthetic SenseJ. F. Fries Frederick Gregory Kent RichterIsis 82 (4): 752-753. 1991.
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23Committed History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences in the Two GermaniesHistory of Science 23 (1): 25-72. 1985.The question of the social commitment of the sociologist, and the scientist in general, has become a burning issue facing the sociology of East and West alike, — though it may take different forms. (P. C. Ludz, “Sociology”, in C. D Kernig (ed.), Marxism, communism, and Western society (New York, 1973), vol. viii, p. 46.)
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256Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual BiographyCambridge University Press. 2015.As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, medical psychology, anthropology, history, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, and religion. Leading anatomists and physiologists reworked his hypotheses about the central and autonomic nervous systems. Dozens of fin-de-siècle philosophica…Read more
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1327Toward a Critical Historiography of PsychologyHistoriography of Modern Psychology, Eds. J. Brozek and L. Pongratz, Göttingen: Hofgrefe 29-70. 1980.
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91Inner migration or disguised reform? Political interests of Hermann Lotze's philosophical anthropologyHistory of the Human Sciences 9 (1): 1-26. 1996.
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World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic (edited book)Kluwer. 1991.Ca. 40 published papers from a summer institute in the German Democratic Republic in 1988.
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5776Charlotte Bühler (1893-1974): Scientific entrepreneuer in developmental, clinical, and humanistic psychologyPortraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Ed. Wade Pickren and Donald Dewsbury 6 83-103. 2012.
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25Martin Kusch. Psychological Knowledge: A Social History and Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 1999. $99.99, Can $149.99 (review)Isis 95 (4): 679-680. 2004.
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1029Russian Women Emigrees in Psychology: Informal Jewish NetworksHistory of Psychology 13 111-137. 2011.
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8Psychology in Twentieth-Century Thought and Society (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1987.
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