The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology: Methods, Approaches, and New Directions for Social Sciences

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Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, Kathleen L. Slaney
John Wiley & Sons, May 6, 2015 - Psychology - 496 pages

The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology presents a comprehensive exploration of the wide range of methodological approaches utilized in the contemporary field of theoretical and philosophical psychology.

  • The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology presents a comprehensive exploration of the wide range of methodological approaches utilized in the contemporary field of theoretical and philosophical psychology.
  • Gathers together for the first time all the approaches and methods that define scholarly practice in theoretical and philosophical psychology
  • Chapters explore various philosophical and conceptual approaches, historical approaches, narrative approaches to the nature of human conduct, mixed-method studies of psychology and psychological inquiry, and various theoretical bases of contemporary psychotherapeutic practices
  • Features contributions from ten Past Presidents of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, along with several Past Presidents of other relevant societies

 

Contents

PhilosophicalConceptual Approaches
21
Conceptual Analysis
39
Philosophical Hermeneutics
53
An Aristotelian Analysis of the Structure of Human Action
70
Methods Historical Development
85
Ending the Dominance of Nouns
117
Historical Approaches
133
The History of Psychological Objects
151
Positioning Theory
263
The Personal Position Repertoire PPR Method as Based
277
Subjectivity as Socioculturally Constituted Experience
293
A Transdisciplinary Psychosocial Approach
308
Theoretical Studies of Scientific Professional
325
Pragmatism in Theoretical Inquiries into Psychological
343
The Value of Experiments in Psychology
359
Feminism and Theoretical Psychology
374

Historical Ontology
166
Historiometry
183
In Quest
200
Narrative and Social Psychological Approaches
217
Narrative Hermeneutics
234
Life Positioning Analysis
248
Knowledge Advancement
392
Using Your Everyday Life
409
Theoretical Bases of Psychotherapeutic Practices
424
The PostCartesian Turn
441
Index
458
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About the author (2015)

Jack Martin is Burnaby Mountain Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian and American Psychological Associations, and a Past President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. His most recent books include The Education of Selves: How Psychology Transformed Students (2013) and The Psychology of Personhood (2013).

Jeff Sugarman is Professor of Education and Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association, and a Past President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. He is the co-author of Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency (2010), Psychology and the Question of Agency (2003), and The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint (1999).

Kathleen Slaney is Associate Professor in the History, Quantitative, and Theoretical Psychology area of the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She was awarded the Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology from the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and is co-editor of A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology (2013).

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