E.G. Boring: Reflections on a Discipline Builder
Abstract
Edwin Garrigues Boring, once among the most respected and influential historians of psychology and a major force in the American profession, has recently come under heavy criticism as a doctrinaire positivist who impeded the development of important branches of the field. Yet, given the spectrum of opinion in his own time on the proper character of psychology, Boring's works show him to be a moderate, ecumenical "centrist" rather than a dogmatic extremist. The downward revision in assessments of Boring (accomplished, ironically, in part with some of his own intellectual constructs) seem to reflect a new constellation of views on the nature of psychological science.
Department
History; Business, Politics and Security Studies
Publication Date
1-1-1988
Journal Title
The American Journal of Psychology
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.2307/1423233
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Cerullo, J. J. “E.G. Boring: Reflections on a Discipline Builder,” American Journal of Psychology, Winter 1988