The First Twenty-Five Years of the American Philosophical Association

Gardiner, H. N.

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“…The philosopher is a lone beast dwelling in his individual burrow. – Count me out !” (cited in Gardiner, , p. 148)…”

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“…It was also during this time that Thilly organized and launched the WΦA, serving as its founding president, 1900–1902. He was also present in 1901 for the discussions that led to the formation of the AΦA, and he would ultimately serve as president of that organization in 1911–1912 (Gardiner, ). In 1904, Thilly was called to a professorship at Princeton, just after Baldwin had left for Johns Hopkins.…”

Section: Selecting Candidates For Centrality Qualitativelymentioning

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Bridge Over Troubled Waters? The Most “Central” Members of Psychology and Philosophy Associations Ca. 1900

Green¹,

Heidari²,

Chiacchia³

et al. 2016

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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There are many different ways to assess the significance of historical figures. Often we look at the influence of their writings, or at the important offices they held with disciplinary institutions such as universities, journals, and scholarly societies. In this study, however, we took a novel approach: we took the complete memberships, ca. 1900, of four organizations-the American Psychological Association, the Western Philosophical Association, the American Philosophical Association, and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology-and visualized them as a network. We then identified individuals who "bridged" between two or more of these groups and considered what might be termed their "centrality" to the psychological-philosophical community of their time. First, we examined these figures qualitatively, briefly describing their lives and careers. Then we approached the problem mathematically, considering several alternative technical realizations of "centrality" and then explaining our reasons for choosing eigenvector centrality as the best for our purposes. We found a great deal of overlap among the results of the qualitative and quantitative approaches, but also some telling differences. J. Mark Baldwin, Edward Buchner, Christine Ladd Franklin, and Frank Thilly consistently emerged as highly central figures. Some more marginal figures such as Max Meyer, and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, Edward A. Pace, Edward H. Griffin played interesting roles as well.

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“…The philosopher is a lone beast dwelling in his individual burrow. – Count me out !” (cited in Gardiner, , p. 148)…”

Section: The Four Associationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Selecting Candidates For Centrality Qualitativelymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridge Over Troubled Waters? The Most “Central” Members of Psychology and Philosophy Associations Ca. 1900

Green¹,

Heidari²,

Chiacchia³

et al. 2016

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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“…About 20 months later, philosophers in the East, led by Cornell professor J. E. Creighton (who had served on the APA Council from 1898), followed the lead of their western colleagues and founded an American Philosophical Association ("Notes," 1902; cf. Creighton, 1902;and Gardiner, 1926). These organizers were again among the many who had spoken at APA meetings as members during the preceding half decade, and the first president of the American Philosophical Association after Creighton was A. T. Ormond of Princeton, who had been a charter member of APA.…”

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Origins and early years of the American Psychological Association, 1890-1906.

Sokal¹

2002

Evolving Perspectives on the History of Psychology.

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The American Psychological Association (APA) emerged at a particular time, in a unique social and institutional environment, and as the result of actions of specific individuals. Like any organism suddenly appearing in a given environment, it had to adapt to its ecological setting and find itself an ecological niche in which it could thrive, or at least survive. The course of events surrounding its establishment reflected America in the late Gilded Age, its emerging university system, the organizational precedents set by other American scientists of the period, and the personal interplay between G. Stanley Hall and his contemporaries. These factors did more to shape the course of events surrounding its establishment -and its character during its earliest years-than did any of the intellectual and scientific issues to which psychologists devoted their attention during that period.From the start, APA was explicitly the American Psychological As-Reprinted from American Psychologist, 47, 111-122 (1992).

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“…About 20 months later, philosophers in the East, led by Cornell professor J. E. Creighton (who had served on the APA Council from 1898), followed the lead of their western colleagues and founded an American Philosophical Association ("Notes," 1902;cf. Creighton, 1902;and Gardiner, 1926). These organizers were again among the many who had spoken at APA meetings as members during the preceding half decade, and the first president of the American Philosophical Association after Creighton was A. T. Ormond of Princeton, who had been a charter member of APA.…”

Section: Gradual Independence For Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

Origins and early years of the American Psychological Association, 1890–1906.

Sokal¹

1992

American Psychologist

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Many personal and professional concerns led G. StanleyHall to found the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1892, and its subsequent development through its earliest years reflected the cultural and institutional milieu in which it emerged, much more than it did the intellectual and scientific issues that interested psychologists during that period. This essay traces APA's evolution through 1906 as an adaptation to the ecological setting in which it found itself and concludes that psychology's institutional relations with other sciences (and psychologists' professional relations with other scientists) did much to shape the ecological niche in which APA established itself during its first decade and a half.

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The First Twenty-Five Years of the American Philosophical Association

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Bridge Over Troubled Waters? The Most “Central” Members of Psychology and Philosophy Associations Ca. 1900

Bridge Over Troubled Waters? The Most “Central” Members of Psychology and Philosophy Associations Ca. 1900

Origins and early years of the American Psychological Association, 1890-1906.

Origins and early years of the American Psychological Association, 1890–1906.

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