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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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609Young 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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31Review 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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