Charles, Thanks for the "eminent." Sorry that I wasn't very clear. I wasn't advocating that a departmental history be reduced to a list. I was, instead, drawing an analogy to the "academic lineage" of particular individuals that one often sees as a class project, and to which Deb drew a comparison in her original post.
By the way, I quite like the U. Penn history page for the psych dept. Looks like they've got the outline of a book there. If I can self-promote for a moment, I published an article on the early history of the Johns Hopkins philosophy (& psychology) department last year in /American Journal of Psych/. Tons of important people were in and around there in the 1880s: G Stanley Hall (manipulative, as always), Charles Sanders Peirce (brilliant but troublesome, as always), William James (indecisive, as always), James McKeen Cattell (petulant, as always), John Dewey (as a young idealistic Hegelian), Christine Ladd (doing logic and color theory with Peirce... and marrying the mathematics professor), Joseph Jastrow (doing, perhaps, the first American psychology experiment with Peirce), Henry Herbert Donaldson (becoming, perhaps, the first American physiological psychologist under Hall). You can find it at: http://www.yorku.ca/christo/papers/JHU-AJP.pdf Best, Chris Green York U. Toronto ============ Charles S. Harris wrote: > Christopher D. Green wrote: > >> Deb Briihl wrote: >> >>> Has anyone ever done a project in History of Psych where students >>> traced the history of the department (not a person's lineage)? [...] >>> >> I'm not sure what you mean. Wouldn't a department's history be simply >> a list of all the people who had taught (or learned) there? >> > > Chris-- > > I was shocked to see an eminent historian of psychology reduce a > department's history to simply a list of people! Here's one example > of how much more there is to such an account: > > http://www.psych.upenn.edu/history/history.htm > > --Charles S. Harris, PhD > (erstwhile U. Penn. psych prof, briefly) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ "Part of respecting another person is taking the time to criticise his or her views." - Melissa Lane, in a /Guardian/ obituary for philosopher Peter Lipton ================================= --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
