"Crisis Debates in Psychology: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences"
International Workshop
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Berlin October 10-12, 2008
Organizers: Ludmila Hyman & Thomas Sturm

Friday, October 10

9.00 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction Ludmila Hyman & Thomas Sturm

9.15 – 10.45 a.m.
Chair: Ludmila Hyman (MPIWG, Berlin)
Annette Mülberger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Psychologists on Psychology: Controversies on Crisis in Crescendo (1897-1933)
Commentator: Fernando Vidal (MPIWG, Berlin)

– coffee break –

 11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.

John Carson (University of Michigan): What is Human about the Human Sciences? Cries of “Crisis” in Turn-of-the-Century French Psychology
Commentator: Francesca Bordogna (Northwestern University)  

– lunch break –

 2.00 – 3.30 p.m.

Chair: John Carson (University of Michigan)
Christian Allesch (Universität Salzburg): Hans Driesch and the Problems of „Normal Psychology“
Commentator: Annette Mülberger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.

Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania): Köhler, Koffka, and the “Crisis” in Psychology
Commentator: Thomas Sturm (MPIWG, Berlin) 

– 6.30 p.m. Speaker’s dinner in Restaurant Sachs (Knesebeckstr. 29) –

Saturday, October 11

9.00 – 10.30 a.m.

Chair: Fernando Vidal (MPIWG, Berlin)
Perrine Marthelot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Bühler’s Theory of Language as a Solution to the Crisis in Psychology
Commentator: Malcolm Hyman (MPIWG, Berlin)

– coffee break –

11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.

Thomas Sturm (MPIWG, Berlin): Bühler’s Krise der Psychologie and the Prehistory of Popper’s Critical Rationalism
Commentator: Uljana Feest (TU Berlin)

– lunch break –

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.

Chair: Annette Mülberger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Uljana Feest (TU Berlin): Husserl’s Crisis as a Crisis of Psychology
Commentator: Jordi Cat (Indiana University, Bloomington)

– coffee break –

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.

Horst Gundlach (Universität Passau/Würzburg): Bühler Revisited in Times of War: P. R. Hofstätter’s Crisis of Psychology (1941)
Commentator: Christian Allesch (Universität Salzburg) 

 – coffee break –

6.00 – 7.30 p.m.

Ludmila Hyman (MPIWG, Berlin): Vygotsky’s Historical Significance of the Crisis in Psychology: Then and Now
Commentator: Michael Cole (University of California, San Diego)

Sunday, October 12

9.00 – 10.30 a.m.
Chair: Uljana Feest (TU Berlin)
Ekaterina Zavershneva (Moscow State University of Dental Medicine): Vygotsky’s Intellectual Evolution in Response to the Crisis
Commentator: Ludmila Hyman (MPIWG, Berlin)

  – coffee break –  

10.45 a.m. – 12.15 p.m.
Cathy Faye (York University): A Chronic Crisis? The Historical Roots of the Crisis in Social Psychology
Commentator: John Carson (University of Michigan)  

12.15 – 1.00 p.m.
*Final Discussion*
Chairs: Ludmila Hyman & Thomas Sturm

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