The Open Mind chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the
rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining …

Pathology of science occurs when the normal processes of scientific investigation break
down and a hypothesis is accepted as true within the mainstream of a discipline without a …

In recent decades game theory—the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting
individuals—has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the …

The last fifteen years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the history of the Cold War.
Historical attention has focused not only on the diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict …

This article surveys histories of recent economics told mainly from the perspective of
outsiders to the discipline. As we see, the work of historians of science, intellectual historians …

Abstract Despite its age, Vannevar Bushs Science: The Endless Frontier has remained a
touchstone for science funding policy discussions. More specifically, many claim that Bush …

Representational measurement theory was proposed initially to solve problems caused by
disciplinary aspirations of 19th-century mathematicians, who wanted to construe their …

The issue of qualitative versus quantitative methods is rooted first and foremost in the
character of the phenomena investigated and not in an investigator's methodological …

Statistics education in psychology often falls disappointingly short of its goals. The
increasing use of qualitative approaches in statistics education research has extended and …

Cultural psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and indigenous psychology are the major
psychological approaches to studying the relationship between culture and psychology. The …