History & Philosophy Section

The CPA Convention is fast-approaching, here is the finalized History and Philosophy of Psychology Section scheduled programming for this year.

Our Section’s programming will take place on Thursday June 13th and Friday June 14th only and all of our sessions will take place in the same location – Room 206A Quebec City Convention Centre. (Note: one exception being our conversation session on Friday at 2pm, which will take place in room 206B)

Please be sure to join us for this year’s HPP Section Keynote speaker – Dale Stout. Dale will be speaking to us on Friday, June 14th, from 1:00pm to 1:55pm, and the title of his address is “Reading Plato’s Meno as the Beginning of Learning: The Drama of the Double Square.” 

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

11:00-11:55am (Room 206A Quebec City Convention Centre)

Theory Review 1 (55mins): Méthodes de validation et de variétés de béhaviorisme

• Le Proces OCES DE LA PREUVE EN PSYCHOLOGIE (Pierre Coté)
• LES DEUX TYPES DE BEHAVIORISME (Pier-Alexandre Tardif)

12:00-12:55pm (Room 206A Quebec City Convention Centre)

Oral Paper Session 1 (55mins): Encountering the Other

• CONCERNING THE OTHER: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN LEVINAS AND SPIVAK (Marissa Barnes)
• INTERROGATING DIFFERENCES: REFLEXIVITY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH (Zhipeng Gao)

1:00-2:25pm (Room 206A Quebec City Convention Centre)

Oral Paper Session 2 (1hr 25mins): Theories and Theorizing: Historical Figures and the Self

• WHAT DO THE CONCEPTS OF ASSOCIATION, SYMPATHY, AND THEOPATHY HAVE IN COMMON? DAVID HARTLEY, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PROTO-PSYCHOLOGIST (Richard Walsh)
• SCHOPENHAUER FOR THE PSYCHOLOGIST (Patric Plesa)
• THE ADDICTIONS OF THE EMPTY SELF (Rebecca Dahl)

2:30-3:55pm (Room 206A Quebec City Convention Centre)

 Section Business Meeting (1hr 55mins):

• SECTION ANNUAL MEETING (William Smythe)

4:00-4:55pm (Room 206A Quebec City Convention Centre)

Theory Review 2 (55mins): Reflections on Psychology’s Metanarrative and its History

• THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS: A CAUTIONARY TALE IN CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1936-1943 (John Connors)
• TRANSCENDING POSITIVISM: THE AXIAL AGE CONSCIOUSNESS OF PSYCHOLOGY (Christopher Peet)

Friday, June 14^th, 2013

10:00-11:25am (Room 206A Quebec City Convention Centre)

Oral Paper Session 3 (1hr, 25mins): Histories and Historians of CPA

• PERSISTENT CLAIMS REGARDING THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (Katalin Dzinas)
• EDWARD C. WEBSTER (1909-1989): THE PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC RECOGNITION OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY IN CANADA (John Connors)
• MARY J. WRIGHT: RESEARCHER, TEACHER AND BUILDER (Laura Ball & Frances Cherry)

1:00-1:55pm

Section Keynote (55mins):

• Reading Plato’s Meno as the Beginning of Learning: The Drama of the Double Square (Dale Stout)

2:00-2:55pm (Room 206B Quebec City Convention Centre)

Conversation Session (55mins):

• A CRITICAL HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY: DIVERSITY OF CONTEXT, THOUGHT, AND PRACTICE (Richard Walsh and Thomas Teo)

3:00-3:55pm (Room 206A Quebec City Convention Centre)

Oral Paper Session 4 (55mins): Psychological Research: From Conception to Translation

• CONSTRUCT VALIDATION: DOES PHILOSOPHICAL STANCE MATTER? (Donald Garcia, Wanda Power, & Kathleen Slaney)
• KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION: FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS, CRITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS (Laura Ball)

Download this schedule here (.doc)