Bridge Over Troubled Waters? The Most "Central" Members of Psychology and Philosophy Associations Ca. 1900
Central Psychologists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4003165 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher D Green (0000-0002-6027-6709), Crystal Heidari, Daniel Chiacchia, Daniel Joseph Chiacchia, Shane M Martins, SHANE M MARTIN (0000-0003-4035-632X) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 279-299 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/jhbs.21792 |
| PMID | 27163795 |
| OpenAlex | W2392169429 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 45 |
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
Association (psychology) · Bridge (graph theory) · Centrality · Discipline · Epistemology · Geography · Griffin · Pace · Social science · Sociology · Watson · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Classics · Computer Science · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Social Representations and Identity
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |