Jack Martin is Burnaby Mountain Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian and American Psychological Associations, and a Past President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. His most recent books include The Education of Selves: How Psychology Transformed Students (2013) and The Psychology of Personhood (2013).Jeff Sugarman is Professor of Education and Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association, and a Past President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. He is the co-author of Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency (2010), Psychology and the Question of Agency (2003), and The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint (1999).Kathleen Slaney is Associate Professor in the History, Quantitative, and Theoretical Psychology area of the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She was awarded the Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology from the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and is co-editor of A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology (2013).

"One of the chief antidotes to the narrowness and overspecialization of contemporary psychology is critical thinking, or as my ex-philosophy professor called it, "talk about talk." This volume fairly brims with "talk about talk," and as a result brilliantly widens the scope of our understanding about how and why we behave as we do. I highly recommend this volume to all those who seek to illuminate—in vivid and concrete detail—the array of philosophical contexts in psychology, and by implication, the very edges of our inquiry."—Kirk Schneider, Ph.D., Adjunct faculty, Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University; author of The Polarized Mind and Existential-Integrative Therapy"A volume of vast scope that provides an indispensable resource for anyone undertaking a serious study of almost any field of psychological inquiry. Presenting original ideas as well as authoritative overviews, the chapters of this book are remarkable for their foundational quality."—Kurt Danziger, Professor Emeritus, York University, Canada"This Handbook is a treasure trove of papers that both analyze the historical and philosophical basis of contemporary theories and methods in experimental psychology and its applied off-shoots, and recommend carefully crafted alternative theoretical paradigms for psychology's future. A major contribution to the field."—Ronald B. Miller, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Saint Michael's College, Chair, Vermont Board of Psychological Examiners, APA Fellow"This handbook brings together chapters by many key contributors to give the reader a rich overview of the sub-discipline of theoretical and philosophical psychology. I especially appreciate the chapters that examine how work in psychology at large is historically situated and the chapters that illustrate how consideration of fundamental philosophical matters can make contributions to our understanding of specific substantive issues in the field."—Michael A. Westerman, Associate Professor of Psychology, New York University"The chapters of this handbook are written by the giants of theoretical and philosophical psychology. In this volume they have made creative, learned — really brilliant — contributions to the field. By doing so they have pointed the way to new approaches to psychological practice, something the field of psychology, all the human sciences, in fact Western society as a whole, now more than ever suffering under the dark cloud of scientistic technicism, desperately needs."—Dr Phillip E. Cushman"This handbook not only proves that theorizing is still thriving in psychology, it also demonstrates the importance and the necessity of this work ... scholars in psychology will find in these pages things to inspire better thinking and improved inquiries into what it means to be human." (Choice Connect 2016)

• About the Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xv1 Editors’ Introduction 1Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, and Kathleen L. SlaneyPart I Philosophical/Conceptual Approaches 212 Philosophical Anthropology 23Matthew LaVine and Michael A. Tissaw3 Conceptual Analysis 39Timothy P. Racine4 Philosophical Hermeneutics 53Frank C. Richardson5 An Aristotelian Analysis of the Structure of Human Action 70Blaine J. Fowers6 Phenomenology: Methods, Historical Development, and Applications in Psychology 85Frederick J. Wertz7 Theory for and as Social Practice of Realizing the Future: Implications from a Transformative Activist Stance 102Anna Stetsenko8 Rhetoric and Psychology: Ending the Dominance of Nouns 117Michael Billig and Cristina Marinho Copyrighted MaterialPart II Historical Approaches 1339 Historical Thinking as a Tool for Theoretical Psychology: On Objectivity 135Thomas Teo10 The History of Psychological Objects 151Adrian Charles Brock11 Historical Ontology 166Jeff Sugarman12 Historiometry 183Dean Keith Simonton13 Statistical Thinking in Psychological Research: In Quest of Clarity through Historical Inquiry and Conceptual Analysis 200James T. LamiellPart III Narrative and Social Psychological Approaches 21714 Narrative Psychology and Life Stories 219Ruthellen Josselson and Brent Hopkins15 Narrative Hermeneutics 234Mark Freeman16 Life Positioning Analysis 248Jack Martin17 Positioning Theory 263Rom Harré18 The Personal Position Repertoire (PPR) Method as Based on Dialogical Self Theory 277Hubert J.M. Hermans19 Subjectivity as Socioculturally Constituted Experience 293Suzanne R. Kirschner20 A Transdisciplinary Psychosocial Approach 308Paul StennerPart IV Theoretical Studies of Scientific, Professional, and Life Practices 32521 Allies in Interdisciplinary Spaces: Theoretical Psychology and Science Studies 327Kareen Ror Malone and Lisa M. OsbeckContents vii22 “I’m Not That Kind of Psychologist”: A Case for Methodological Pragmatism in Theoretical Inquiries into Psychological Science Practices 343Kathleen L. Slaney23 The Value of Experiments in Psychology 359Jan Smedslund24 Feminism and Theoretical Psychology 374Alexandra Rutherford, Kate Sheese, and Nora Ruck25 Surprisability and Practical Rationality: Knowledge Advancement through the Explication of Interpretation 392Brent D. Slife, Clayton T. Johnson, and Amy C. Jennings26 Empirical Philosophy: Using Your Everyday Life in Theoretical Psychology 409Svend Brinkmann27 Theoretical Bases of Psychotherapeutic Practices 424John Chambers Christopher, Samuel C. Gable, and David M. Goodman28 Contemporary Psychoanalysis: The Post-Cartesian Turn in Theory and Practice 441Roger FrieIndex 458