Unbuilt Bench - Experimental Psychology on the Verge of Science

In The Unbuilt Bench, David Peterson argues that the scientific study of the mind and human behavior is a different sort of epistemic activity than the work of the natural sciences.

List of contents

Foreword
1. The Promise of Experimental Psychology
2. Bench-Building as the Means and Ends of Technological Progress
3. Bench-Building in Molecular Biology
4. Unbuilt Benches in Psychology Laboratories
5. Man at Point Zero
6. The Vertigo of Freedom
7. Can Merton Discipline Psychology
8. Progress in Psychology, Real and Imagined
Afterword: Where Does Archimedes Stand?
Notes
References
Index

About the author

David Peterson is an assistant professor of sociology at Purdue University.

Summary

In The Unbuilt Bench, David Peterson argues that the scientific study of the mind and human behavior is a different sort of epistemic activity than the work of the natural sciences.

Product details

• Authors: David Andrew Peterson
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2025
• EAN: 9780231217323
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21732-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies