Greetings all, This coming Monday, October 27 1.00-2.30 in the philosophy common room Professor John Furedy (Toronto) will be giving a paper "On the relevance of philosophy for scientific psychological research: Pre-Socratic, Socratic, Aristotelean, and Andersonian influences on the Sydney psychology department (1945-65)"
Abstract I have a “pre-modern” view of the disciplines of philosophy and psychology which I acquired in Sydney University departments, and maintained as a psychological researcher spent mostly in Canada (1967-2005), following my education at Sydney University (1958-65). In this working paper, I would like to use the Sydney psychology department, in which Bill O’Neil administratively reigned as a god professor (1945-65), as a paradigm case of a department that educated researchers in experimental and differential psychology in such a way that philosophy, or rather the philosophy of science, had a clear logical role. This contrasts with the lack of a clear logical relationship between the current, post-modern forms of philosophy and psychology (or cognitive science, or cognitive neuroscience, or cognitive behavioral neuroscience), where psychology has, in fact, shifted toward the alchemical end of the chemistry-alchemy, hard-soft science continuum. I will first state what I think are four relevant influences on O’Neil’s teaching staff and students, and then indicate how these influences affected the department’s research as well as style of teaching. Because I would like more feedback for this paper than can be obtained during the brief oral discussion period, I will provide a handout that contains a set of relevant web references that can be commented on later by interested individuals. See you all there... Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (work) 02 9036 9663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
