Annals of Theoretical Psychology: Volume 8 (Annals of Theoretical Psychology)

"This volume and its companion, to be published as Volume 9 in the Annals series, had their origin in a visit by the first editor to our Center in 1983, a year prior to our initiating publication of the Annals. Some three years later, Hans Rappard formally proposed to edit, together with the historian of psychology in the Netherlands, Pieter van Strien, an Annals volume devoted to history and theory. Rappard emphasized, however, that it was to be "not just a volume on the relation between history of psychology and theoretical psychology, but rather a volume on the relevance of history to theory, or psychology in general. In other words, how and what could 'doing history' contribute to (theoretical) problems that face contemporary psychology." Another four years passed before commitments from the twenty-seven contributors were received. The plan was to publish a single volume devoted to history and theory, however, the length of six major papers, eighteen commentaries, and replies to commentaries, necessitated a decision to publish the manuscript in two volumes. It was not an easy decision especially as the contributors and editors had achieved an integrity of theme and content that is unusual for edited volumes. Moreover, in view of the manuscript's long past, we felt little inclination to extend its history"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xi History and Theory: Introduction....Pages 1-14 Psychological Objects, Practice, and History....Pages 15-47 Rhetoric, Society, and the Historiography of psychology....Pages 49-57 History from the Top Down....Pages 59-64 Contextualizing Danziger Within Sociological Theory....Pages 65-70 History, Practice, and Psychological Objects: Reply to commentators....Pages 71-84 History and the Psychological Imagination....Pages 85-117 Perspectival Structure and Dynamics of Knowledge....Pages 119-125 The Uses of History....Pages 127-135 Toward a Closer Proximity of Psychology and History....Pages 137-147 The Historical Practice of Theory Construction....Pages 149-227 History, Theory and Social Groups: A critical enhancement of the Denkgebäude of Pieter J. van Strien....Pages 229-243 Theory in Historical Context....Pages 245-248 The View From “Social Psychology of Science”....Pages 249-260 Historizing theory and theorizing history: Reply to commentaries....Pages 261-271 Back Matter....Pages 273-291 The current work, the first of a two volume set, is devoted to the relevance of history to psychological theory, and the manner in which both may be worked into an empirical framework