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Constructing Scientific Psychology
Karl Lashley's Mind-Brain Debates

This 1999 book was the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley.

Nadine M. Weidman (Author)

9780521621625, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 January 1999

240 pages, 9 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.52 kg

"...this book covers some interesting features of Lashley's life which are unlikely to be found in the textbooks. It is features like these which make this such an illuminating book. Nadine Weidman has produced a thoroughly enjoyalbe account of Lashley's life and research career. I wyould highly recommend it to psychology and biology students, and to anyone interested in understanding the history of the mind-brain debate." Chemistry & Industry

Constructing Scientific Psychology, published in 1999, was the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley. It sets Lashley's research at the heart of two controversies that polarized the American life and human sciences in the first half of the twentieth century. These concerned the relationship between 'mind' and 'brain' and the relative roles of 'nature' and 'nurture' in shaping behaviour and intelligence. The book explodes the myth of Lashley's neuropsychology as a fact-driven, 'pure' science by arguing that a belief in the power of heredity and a nativist and deeply conservative racial ideology informed every aspect of his theory and practice.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Lashley and Jennings: the origins of a hereditarian
2. Lashley, Watson, and the meaning of behaviorism
3. The pursuit of a neutral science
4. Neuropsychology and hereditarianism
5. Psychobiology and progressivism
6. Psychobiology and its discontents: the Lashley–Herrick debate
7. Hull and psychology as a social science
8. Intelligence testing and thinking machines: the Lahley–Hull debate
9. Pure psychology
10. Public science and private life
11. Genetics, race biology, and depoliticization
Epilogue: Lashley and American neuropsychology
Appendix: archives holding Lashley material
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]

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