1. Via Invoegen | Koptekst en Voettekst invoegen Subafdeling<2spaties>|<2spaties>Titel van de presentatieVia Invoegen | Koptekst en Voettekst invoegen Subafdeling<2spaties>|<2spaties>Titel van de presentatie 1 Mapping the Development of Psychology Ivan Flis PhD Candidate in History and Philosophy of Psychology PSI Early Graduate Group Conference 27-28 February 2015 The Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities

2. Outline One map One (hi)story A few take-home messages (hopefully) Wikimedia Public Domain: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Himmelwright_Stone_House_2nd_Floor_Plan.jpg

3. Short digression into my project The maps (1)

4. The maps (2) What do they teach us? Let’s see on an example from the 1950s.

5. Outline One map One (hi)story A few take-home messages Wikimedia Public Domain: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Himmelwright_Stone_House_2nd_Floor_Plan.jpg

6. How did we end up with behavioral science? Social science? Behavioral science? Based on, with permission, Jeff Pooley’s unpublished paper A “Not Particularly Felicitous” Phrase: A History of the “Behavioral Sciences” Label presented at a symposium in 2012. Link: http://jeffpooley.com/pubs/pooley-behavioral-sciences.pdf Or how did the Ford Foundation coin the new name for objectivity in the 1950s Connotations of socialism! Speculative and pre-scientific! Palpable to biologists and other non-social scientists. Firmly rooted in quantitative methodologies. Palpable to psychologists who resisted the moniker of social science And note, this objectivity was powered by $417 million in assets

7. Outline One map One (hi)story A few take-home messages Wikimedia Public Domain: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Himmelwright_Stone_House_2nd_Floor_Plan.jpg

8. Take-home messages Psychology, as any other science, is socially and historically contingent. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ivory_Tower_Flyer.jpg Be critical! Do not disenfranchise yourself with myths of objectivity!