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12A MAJOR PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETER of Kant and critic of Herbart and Hegel, Hermann Lotze ( 1817-1881) is known to historians of psychology primarily for his theory of spatial perception.' As Professor of Philosophy at Gottingen University from 1845 to 1880, he published his theory of the physiological mechanism for spatial consciousness no less than six times.2 Standard accounts present his local sign theory as an associationistic, empiricistic, or empiristic view.3 Yet they also mention its inf…Read more
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631Bruner's lectures: Cultural psychology in statu nascendiIn Gordana Jovanovic, L. Allolio-Naecke & C. Ratner (eds.), The Challenges of Cultural Psychology, Routledge. 2018.I propose to take a more proximate and micro-contextual approach to the history of cultural psychology, by focusing on the 1960s. In this historical snapshot, Jerome Bruner emerges as a consummate experimental scientist, organizer of scientific knowledge, and entrepreneur in education. Looking ahead, his work continued to evolve: from perceptual readiness and values in perception (1950s) to thinking and educational psychology (1960s). Then came developmental psychology and spiral curriculum (197…Read more
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14Johannes Müller, Hermann Lotze, Jakob Henle und die Konstruktion des vegetativen NervensystemsIn Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt & Michael Hagner (eds.), Johannes Müller und die Philosophie, Walter De Gruyter Gmbh & Co Kg. pp. 155-172. 2018.
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James's evolutionary epistemology: "Necessary truths and the effects of experience"In Donnelly M. E. (ed.), Reinterpreting the legacy of William James, Apa Books. pp. 153-170. 1992.
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532In the Shadow of the Enlightenment: II. Reimarus and his Theory of DrivesJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 10 144-159. 1974.
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5Knowledge, Belief, and Aesthetic Sense by J. F. Fries; Frederick Gregory; Kent Richter (review)Isis 82 752-753. 1991.
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1The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (review)Isis 70 292-293. 1979.
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610Young Piaget Revisited: From the Grasp of Consciousness to DécalageGenetic Psychology Monographs 99 131-161. 1979.
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27Structures of Knowing: Psychologies of the Nineteenth CenturyKatherine ArensIsis 82 (1): 148-149. 1991.
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24Committed 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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268Hermann 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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1358Toward a Critical Historiography of PsychologyHistoriography of Modern Psychology, Eds. J. Brozek and L. Pongratz, Göttingen: Hofgrefe 29-70. 1980.
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92Inner 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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5823Charlotte 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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