Article ID: CBB401232921

Transfer of Lamarckisms and emerging ‘scientific’ psychologies: 19th – early 20th centuries Britain and France (2020)

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The paper argues that transfer of assumptions, concepts, models and metaphors from a variety of Lamarckisms played a significant role in the endeavors to constitute psychology as a scientific discipline. It deals with such efforts in the second half of the nineteenth century and until early twentieth century in Britain and in France. The paper discusses works by Herbert Spencer, John Hughlings-Jackson, Théodule Ribot and Sigmund Freud. It argues that certain crucial facets of their work as discipline-founders could and should be looked upon as resulting from such transfer of/from Lamarckisms. Specifically it looks at the constitutive roles of notions of hierarchical order, parallelism, self, memory and collectivity.

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Article Christopher Donohue (2020) Social borrowings and biological appropriations: Special issue introduction. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (p. 101309). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Loison, Laurent
Gissis, Snait B.
Pratte, Erika Annabelle
Evrard, Renaud
Manuel DeLanda
Cardeña, Etzel
Concepts
Evolution
Biology
Lamarckism
Discipline formation
Models and modeling in science
Metaphors; analogies
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
France
Great Britain
United States
Germany
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