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<ref name=baldwinstory>Baldwin JM. (1910) | <ref name=baldwinstory>Baldwin JM. (1910) [http://books.google.com/books?id=bIJ9AAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Story of the Mind'']. D. Appleton and Co. | <font face="Gill Sans MT">Clicking title links to free Google eBook.</font></ref> | ||
<ref name=baldwinauto>Baldwin JM. (1930) History of Psychology in Autobiography. Carl Murchison, editor.1:1-30. Worcester, MA: Clark University Press. | Republished with permission, by [http://psychclassics.asu.edu/Baldwin/murchison.htm Classics in the History of Psychology], internet resource developed by Christopher D. Green, York University, Toronto, Ontario. ISSN 1492-3173.</ref> | <ref name=baldwinauto>Baldwin JM. (1930) History of Psychology in Autobiography. Carl Murchison, editor.1:1-30. Worcester, MA: Clark University Press. | Republished with permission, by [http://psychclassics.asu.edu/Baldwin/murchison.htm Classics in the History of Psychology], internet resource developed by Christopher D. Green, York University, Toronto, Ontario. ISSN 1492-3173.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 17:28, 30 May 2011
James Mark Baldwin (1861-1934), a prominent and influential American psychologist and philosopher, made important contributions to experimental psychology, developmental psychology, and evolutionary psychology during his academic career that included faculty positions at Princeton, Johns Hopkins, the National University in Mexico City, the French Provincial Universities, and the Ecole des Hautes Sociales in Paris.[1] In his autobiography,[2] Baldwin arranges his published contributions in the following categories, a chronological survey of his work in psychology and philosophy:
- General Psychology
- Experimental Psychology
- Child Psychology and Racial Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Genetic Psychology and Evolution
- Genetic Logic
- Terminology
Bryn Mawr College Professor of Psychology, Robert H. Wozniak, writes of Baldwin with this encomium:
Between 1892 and 1909, Baldwin could lay claim to being one of the best known psychologists in America, with an international reputation second only to that of William James [(1842-1910)].[1]
Professor Wozniak proffers that Baldwin’s writings provided a source for some of the most profound ideas advanced by the influential developmental psychologists, Jean Piaget (1896 –1980) and Lev S. Vygotsky (1896 –1937), and notes that, in turn, Baldwin was greatly influenced by the revolutionary ideas of the naturalist, Charles Darwin (1809-1882)—inspiring an image of something like a pyramid of giants with giants standing on their shoulders.
Early years
Thoughts on 'General Psychology'
Baldwin refers to general truths of psychology:
And when we wish to trace out the story of the mind, as psychology has done it, we find that there are certain general truths with which we should first acquaint ourselves; truths which the science has been a very long time finding out, but which we can now realize without a great deal of explanation.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wozniak RH. (2009) Consciousness, Social Heredity, and Development: The Evolutionary Thought of James Mark Baldwin. American Psychologist 64(2)93-101.
- ↑ Baldwin JM. (1930) History of Psychology in Autobiography. Carl Murchison, editor.1:1-30. Worcester, MA: Clark University Press. | Republished with permission, by Classics in the History of Psychology, internet resource developed by Christopher D. Green, York University, Toronto, Ontario. ISSN 1492-3173.
- ↑ Baldwin JM. (1910) The Story of the Mind. D. Appleton and Co. | Clicking title links to free Google eBook.