Laurence D Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence D Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence D |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bringing history to life: Simulating landmark experiments in psychology
The course in history of psychology can be challenging for students, many of whom enter it with little background in history and faced with unfamiliar names and concepts. The sheer volume of material can encourage passive memorization unless efforts are made to increase student involvement. As part of a trend toward experiential history, historians of science have begun to supplement their lectures with demonstrations of classic physics experimen…
Visual Inscriptions in the Scientific Hierarchy: Mapping the “Treasures of Science
Previous research has shown that the level of graph use in science journals is linearly related to the hardness of disciplines, confirming Bruno Latour’s “graphism” thesis that graphs are central to science. To determine whether the same is true of other visual displays, journals in seven disciplines were surveyed for their use of nongraph illustrations (NGIs) along with other inscriptions, both visual and nonvisual. Like graphs, NGIs were used m…
Bolstering Science and Practice Through Graphism
Constructing knowledge: The role of graphs and tables in hard and soft psychology
Francis Bacon
Psychology without p values: Data analysis at the turn of the 19th Century
Although the fledgling psychology of 100 years ago was assertively empirical, there were no inferential statistics to guide psychologists' data analyses. However, 19th-century developments had left psychology with a rich array of techniques for analyzing and presenting data, some of which remain underutilized today. These include comparisons across replications, within-subject designs, reanalysis of data, analyses of factorial designs, and especi…
Psychology without p values: Data analysis at the turn of the 19th Century
Scientific Graphs and the Hierarchy of the Sciences: A Latourian Survey of Inscription Practices
Studies comparing the cognitive status of the sciences have long sought to identify the distinguishing features of `hard' and `soft' science. Attempts by philosophers of science to ground such distinctions in abstract principles and by sociologists of science to detect relevant differences (for example, in consensus levels) have met with limited success. However, recent investigations of scientists' concrete practices of data representation provi…
Natural science and unnatural technology
On prediction and control: B. F. Skinner and the technological ideal of science
On prediction and control: B. F. Skinner and the technological ideal of science
Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the Alliance.
Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the Alliance
Problems and progress in the philosophy of science: An essay review
Clark Hull, Robert Cummins, and Functional Analysis
Robert Cummins has recently used the program of Clark Hull to illustrate the effects of logical positivist epistemology upon psychological theory. On Cummins's account, Hull's theory is best understood as a functional analysis, rather than a nomological subsumption. Hull's commitment to the logical positivist view of explanation is said to have blinded him to this aspect of his theory, and thus restricted its scope. We will argue that this interp…
Psychology and philosophy: Toward a realignment, 1905-1935
In the first decade of this century, debates over whether psychology should be affiliated with philosophy or the natural sciences signaled the discipline's withdrawal from philosophy. By the 1930s, however, talk of a rapprochement between psychology and philosophy was common in the psychological literature. This paper traces the changes in philosophy which facilitated that rapprochement and examines psychology's role in the development of logical…
Scientific Graphs and the Hierarchy of the Sciences: A Latourian Survey of Inscription Practices
Studies comparing the cognitive status of the sciences have long sought to identify the distinguishing features of `hard' and `soft' science. Attempts by philosophers of science to ground such distinctions in abstract principles and by sociologists of science to detect relevant differences (for example, in consensus levels) have met with limited success. However, recent investigations of scientists' concrete practices of data representation provi…
Visual Inscriptions in the Scientific Hierarchy: Mapping the “Treasures of Science
Previous research has shown that the level of graph use in science journals is linearly related to the hardness of disciplines, confirming Bruno Latour’s “graphism” thesis that graphs are central to science. To determine whether the same is true of other visual displays, journals in seven disciplines were surveyed for their use of nongraph illustrations (NGIs) along with other inscriptions, both visual and nonvisual. Like graphs, NGIs were used m…
Constructing knowledge: The role of graphs and tables in hard and soft psychology
Clark Hull, Robert Cummins, and Functional Analysis
Robert Cummins has recently used the program of Clark Hull to illustrate the effects of logical positivist epistemology upon psychological theory. On Cummins's account, Hull's theory is best understood as a functional analysis, rather than a nomological subsumption. Hull's commitment to the logical positivist view of explanation is said to have blinded him to this aspect of his theory, and thus restricted its scope. We will argue that this interp…
Psychology and philosophy: Toward a realignment, 1905-1935
In the first decade of this century, debates over whether psychology should be affiliated with philosophy or the natural sciences signaled the discipline's withdrawal from philosophy. By the 1930s, however, talk of a rapprochement between psychology and philosophy was common in the psychological literature. This paper traces the changes in philosophy which facilitated that rapprochement and examines psychology's role in the development of logical…
Clark Hull, Robert Cummins, and Functional Analysis
Robert Cummins has recently used the program of Clark Hull to illustrate the effects of logical positivist epistemology upon psychological theory. On Cummins's account, Hull's theory is best understood as a functional analysis, rather than a nomological subsumption. Hull's commitment to the logical positivist view of explanation is said to have blinded him to this aspect of his theory, and thus restricted its scope. We will argue that this interp…
Problems and progress in the philosophy of science: An essay review
Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the Alliance
Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the Alliance.
On prediction and control: B. F. Skinner and the technological ideal of science
On prediction and control: B. F. Skinner and the technological ideal of science
Natural science and unnatural technology
Psychology without p values: Data analysis at the turn of the 19th Century
Although the fledgling psychology of 100 years ago was assertively empirical, there were no inferential statistics to guide psychologists' data analyses. However, 19th-century developments had left psychology with a rich array of techniques for analyzing and presenting data, some of which remain underutilized today. These include comparisons across replications, within-subject designs, reanalysis of data, analyses of factorial designs, and especi…
Psychology without p values: Data analysis at the turn of the 19th Century
Scientific Graphs and the Hierarchy of the Sciences: A Latourian Survey of Inscription Practices
Studies comparing the cognitive status of the sciences have long sought to identify the distinguishing features of `hard' and `soft' science. Attempts by philosophers of science to ground such distinctions in abstract principles and by sociologists of science to detect relevant differences (for example, in consensus levels) have met with limited success. However, recent investigations of scientists' concrete practices of data representation provi…
Constructing knowledge: The role of graphs and tables in hard and soft psychology
Francis Bacon
Bolstering Science and Practice Through Graphism
Bringing history to life: Simulating landmark experiments in psychology
The course in history of psychology can be challenging for students, many of whom enter it with little background in history and faced with unfamiliar names and concepts. The sheer volume of material can encourage passive memorization unless efforts are made to increase student involvement. As part of a trend toward experiential history, historians of science have begun to supplement their lectures with demonstrations of classic physics experimen…
Visual Inscriptions in the Scientific Hierarchy: Mapping the “Treasures of Science
Previous research has shown that the level of graph use in science journals is linearly related to the hardness of disciplines, confirming Bruno Latour’s “graphism” thesis that graphs are central to science. To determine whether the same is true of other visual displays, journals in seven disciplines were surveyed for their use of nongraph illustrations (NGIs) along with other inscriptions, both visual and nonvisual. Like graphs, NGIs were used m…
Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (5 works) · Logical positivism (4 works) · Political science (4 works)