• DOI:10.18774/448X.2015.12.242
• Corpus ID: 146172736

Las Controversias Históricas en Psicología: ¿Anomalías Irracionales Egotistas o Instancias Estructurales de Debate Racional?

@inproceedings{Fierro2015LasCH,
  title={Las Controversias Hist{\'o}ricas en Psicolog{\'i}a: ¿Anomal{\'i}as Irracionales Egotistas o Instancias Estructurales de Debate Racional?},
  author={Catriel Fierro},
  year={2015}
}

• Catriel Fierro
• Published 10 July 2015
• Psychology

This paper presents an empirical (historical) survey about the insertion, definition and valuation of scientific controversies in psychology on the basis of certain historiographical trends in History of Psychology. With the overall objective of reviewing the importance of controversial instances for the scientific development of psychology, and the specific objective of enabling rapprochement between the historiography of psychology and social studies of science, the definition and explanation given about historical controversies by the classic historiography of psychology are first described, emphasizing the anomalous character of such controversies to said historiography given the implicit theoretical and methodological principles of such tradition. The redefinition of historical controversies by the ‘new history’ of psychology developed since 1970 is then detailed. It is noted that such redefinition took place partly due to the historians’ incorporation of certain sociological and socio-historical principles and explanatory resources from social history of science and social studies of science. The positive character of such a redefinition and of the foresight of deeper socio-historical analysis of controversies in psychology is then concluded.