【情境中的文本】心理學(xué)的尺度_英文_原版

1、 MEASUREMENT IN PSYCHOLOGYThis book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so malleable when it collided with the subject matter of psychology. It locates philosophical and social influences (s

2、uch as scientism, practicalism, and Pythagoreanism) reshaping the concept and, at the core of this reshaping, identifies a fundamental problem: the issue of whether psychological attributes really are quantitative. It ar

3、gues that the idea of measurement now endorsed within psychology actually subverts attempts to establish a genuinely quantitative science and it urges a new direction. It relates views on measurement by thinkers such as

4、Ho ¨lder, Russell, Campbell and Nagel to earlier views, such as those of Euclid and Oresme. Within the history of psychology, it considers among others contributions by Fechner, Cattell, Thorndike, Stevens and Suppe

5、s. It also contains a non-technical expo- sition of conjoint measurement theory and recent foun- dational work by leading measurement theorist R. Duncan Luce.JOEL MICHELL teaches psychometrics, measurement theory and the

6、 history and philosophy of psychology in the Depart- ment of Psychology, University of Sydney. He is the author of the textbook An Introduction to the Logic of Psychological Measure- ment (1990) and co-editor of the coll