Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

Brent D. Slife recently retired as Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University. He has been honored with BYU’s highest faculty award as well as the American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for his contribution to psychology. Dr. Slife has served as the President of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and was until recently the Editor-in-Chief of the APA Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. He also edits a book series with Routledge Publications and has authored or co-authored over 200 articles and 10 books.Stephen C. Yanchar is Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and an editorial board member of New Ideas in Psychology. He is co-editor of the Routledge volume Hermeneutic Moral Realism in Psychology: Theory and Practice. Frank C. Richardson is Professor of Educational Psychology (emeritus) at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author or editor of several books, including Re-envisioning Psychology and Critical Thinking about Psychology and the author of over 100 articles and chapters in theoretical psychology and the philosophy of social science.

• Section I. Alternative Conceptions of Psychology as a Discipline 1. Minds, Brains, or Persons? What is Psychology About? 2. Psychology’s Flawed Focus on Individuals and Individualism: A Strong Relationality Alternative 3. The End of Disembodied Mind: Fleshing Out Psychology 4. The Distorting Lens of Psychology’s Individualism and a Social Realist Alternative 5. Should Psychology Care About Metaphysics? 6. Philosophical Hermeneutics: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism in Psychology 7. Carving the Joints: The Ontology and Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Psychology; Section II. Alternative Conceptions of Fields Within Psychology: Positive Psychology, Development, Learning, Evolutionary Psychology, History, and Ethics 8. A Social Constructionist Critique of Positive Psychology 9. Striving for the Whole Toward an Organismic Theory of Development 10. Beyond Mechanism in Psychological Theories of Learning: A Hermeneutic Account of Embodied Familiarization 11. Reductive Naturalism and Evolutionary Psychology’s Empty Ethics of Enhancement: A Phenomenological Alternative 12. Psychology and the Significance of History 13. Philosophical and Political Lessons from the Hoffman Report: Toward a Hermeneutic Re-Moralization of Psychology; Section III. Alternative Conceptions of Self and Identity; 14. Who am I? Towards a Multi-Voiced Dialogical Self 15. Racial Identity and Transnational Migration: Black-Canadian and Indian-American Diaspora 16. A Critical Interpretative Psychology of Gender 17. Narrative Psychology and Beyond: Returning the Other to the Story of the Self 18. Subjectivity 19. Preserving Agency as a Human Phenomenon; Section IV. Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Inquiry 20. A Nonreductive "Person-based Ontology" for Psychological Inquiry 21. Why Human Inquiry Is Different than Natural Science Inquiry 22. The Participatory Perspective: Moving Beyond "Pro-World" Approaches to Theorizing in Psychology Without Adopting "Pro-Subject/Mind" Approaches 23. Metaphors, Idioms, and Clichés: The Rhetoric of Objectivity in Psychological Science Discourse 24. Existential Phenomenological Research: A "Human Science" Alternative for Psychology; Section V. Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Practices: Psychotherapy, Abnormality, Theorizing, Aging, and Marriage 25. The Virtue of Virtue for Psychotherapy: Contextualizing and Situating the Conversation 26. Subjectivity, Schizophrenia, and the Self: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychopathology 27. The Praxis of Theorizing in Psychology: From Traditional to Critical Perspectives 28. Radicalizing Aging Theory in a Participatory Democracy: Critical Reflective Praxis of Phenomenology as Enacted Activism 29. Rethinking Marriage in a Post-Traditional Western World