Centrality of History for Theory Construction in Psychology

Sven Hroar Klempe is Associate Professor in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His background includes time as full Professor in Musicology, Associate Professor in Media Studies, teacher, and journalist. His research is cross disciplinary, with an emphasis on the history of psychology, culture and psychology, theory of science, communication, and music psychology. His recent book is Kierkegaard and the Rise of Modern Psychology (Transaction, 2014).Roger Smith is Reader Emeritus in History of Science, Lancaster University, UK, associate of the Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia, and independent scholar. He is a past President of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences. His Fontana/Norton History of the Human Sciences is online at: www.rogersmith.ru. His recent books are Between Mind and Nature: A History of Psychology (Reaktion Books,2013) and Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870-1910 (Pickering & Chatto, 2013). He is currently working on the history of kinaesthesia, the sense of reality, and cultures of movement.

• Part I: Theory and Practice.- Chapter 1. History of Psychology - What For?.- Chapter 2. The Universal and the Particular in Psychology and the Role of History in Examining Both.- Chapter 3. Six Meanings of the History of Science: The Case of Psychology.- Chapter 4. Beyond the "Variables": Developing Metalanguage for Psychology.- Chapter 5. The Shackles of Practice: History of Psychology, Research Assessment, and the Curriculum.- Chapter 6. History for "Polycentric" Psychological Science: An "Outsider's Case".- Part II: History At Work.- Chapter 7. The Dominant as a Model Chronogenic Challenge: The Relevance of A.A. Ukhtomsky's and L.S. Vygotsky's Traditions for Systemic Cognitive Studies.- Chapter 8. Constructiveness in the History of Psychology: Bartlett from Past to Future.- Chapter 9. A History of Psychology's Complicated Relationship to Feminism: Theorizing Difference.- Chapter 10. Autonomy, Theory, and "Applied" versus "Basic": Work Psychology and Its Search for Identity in Finland, ca. 195 - 2000.- Chapter 11. Subjectivity in the History of Psychology - A Systematic or a Historical Change?.- Part III: Commentary.- Chapter 12. Commentary I: Functions and Trends in the History of Psychology.- Chapter 13. Commentary II: The Past and the History of Psychology.