Scientist as Subject: The Psychiological Imperative (Foundations of Psychology) - Softcover

Mahoney, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975273809 ISBN 13: 9780975273807

Publisher: Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications, 2004

Synopsis

In this book, originally published by Ballinger in 1976, Michael Mahoney documents the idiosyncracies and foibles of the scientific process as a field of endeavor. A new introduction updates his discussion in light of subsequent developments, including such aspects of academia as politics and tenure, publication and power relations, science studies and constructivist inquiry, and what have come to be called the "science wars."

About this title

About the Author:

Michael J. Mahoney, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, California, and University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Review:

"Michael Mahoney has practiced science from within the major paradigms and has also stood outside and critiqued each in turn, not as caricatures but as valiant (if fallible) attempts to make sense of our experience." N. McK. Agnew, York University "A radical, thought-provoking exploration of the experience of being a scientist. After twenty-five years, it maintains its lively topicality and suggests new questions relevant to scientific methodologies." Giampiero Arciero, University of Siena "This important book challenges many myths of science and its practitioners. Mahoney's absorbing new introduction offers a clear picture of our social responsibility in the manufacture and use of knowledge. Erudite and informative, yet also witty and entertaining." Sophie Freud, Simmons College "One of the great psychologies of science. Mahoney deconstructs the many myths that are cracking the very foundations of scientific knowledge." Andre Marquis, Northeastern State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0975273809
• ISBN 13: 9780975273807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280