Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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).

• About the Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xv1 Editors’ Introduction 1Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, and Kathleen L. SlaneyPart I Philosophical/Conceptual Approaches 212 Philosophical Anthropology 23Matthew LaVine and Michael A. Tissaw3 Conceptual Analysis 39Timothy P. Racine4 Philosophical Hermeneutics 53Frank C. Richardson5 An Aristotelian Analysis of the Structure of Human Action 70Blaine J. Fowers6 Phenomenology: Methods, Historical Development, and Applications in Psychology 85Frederick J. Wertz7 Theory for and as Social Practice of Realizing the Future: Implications from a Transformative Activist Stance 102Anna Stetsenko8 Rhetoric and Psychology: Ending the Dominance of Nouns 117Michael Billig and Cristina MarinhoPart II Historical Approaches 1339 Historical Thinking as a Tool for Theoretical Psychology: On Objectivity 135Thomas Teo10 The History of Psychological Objects 151Adrian Charles Brock11 Historical Ontology 166Jeff Sugarman12 Historiometry 183Dean Keith Simonton13 Statistical Thinking in Psychological Research: In Quest of Clarity through Historical Inquiry and Conceptual Analysis 200James T. LamiellPart III Narrative and Social Psychological Approaches 21714 Narrative Psychology and Life Stories 219Ruthellen Josselson and Brent Hopkins15 Narrative Hermeneutics 234Mark Freeman16 Life Positioning Analysis 248Jack Martin17 Positioning Theory 263Rom Harré18 The Personal Position Repertoire (PPR) Method as Based on Dialogical Self Theory 277Hubert J.M. Hermans19 Subjectivity as Socioculturally Constituted Experience 293Suzanne R. Kirschner20 A Transdisciplinary Psychosocial Approach 308Paul StennerPart IV Theoretical Studies of Scientific, Professional, and Life Practices 32521 Allies in Interdisciplinary Spaces: Theoretical Psychology and Science Studies 327Kareen Ror Malone and Lisa M. Osbeck22 “I’m Not That Kind of Psychologist”: A Case for Methodological Pragmatism in Theoretical Inquiries into Psychological Science Practices 343Kathleen L. Slaney23 The Value of Experiments in Psychology 359Jan Smedslund24 Feminism and Theoretical Psychology 374Alexandra Rutherford, Kate Sheese, and Nora Ruck25 Surprisability and Practical Rationality: Knowledge Advancement through the Explication of Interpretation 392Brent D. Slife, Clayton T. Johnson, and Amy C. Jennings26 Empirical Philosophy: Using Your Everyday Life in Theoretical Psychology 409Svend Brinkmann27 Theoretical Bases of Psychotherapeutic Practices 424John Chambers Christopher, Samuel C. Gable, and David M. Goodman28 Contemporary Psychoanalysis: The Post-Cartesian Turn in Theory and Practice 441Roger FrieIndex 458

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