Collection

The Max Planck Papers

This collection brings together papers from the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics and Max Planck Institute for the History of Sciences. It deals with the diverse perspectives on the historical and contemporary approaches to the study of human thought. The collection focuses on the general theme of the role of personal libraries and archives in the history of ideas and in the scientific production in psychology and social science over the XX century, as well as on the paradigm shifts from behaviorism to cognitive science to neuroscience.

Editors

  • Pina Marsico

    Pina Marsico is Associate Prof. of Development and Educational Psychology at the University of Salerno (Italy), visiting scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Visiting Prof. at Ph.D Program in Psychology, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil), Visiting Prof. at East China Normal University and Associate Prof. II at University of Oslo. She is President of APA-Division 52 International Psychology and President of the European Society of Psychology Learning and Teaching (ESPLAT). She has worked as editor on a number of books/book series, and is co-Editor in Chief of the journals Human Arenas & Trends in Psychology.

  • Ariel Furstenberg

    Ariel Furstenberg, PhD, is a research associate at the Hebrew University. His current interest lies at the borderline between philosophy and brain science, specifically regarding the issue of agency, intentionality, self-control and free-will; conducting human behavioral and electrophysiological experimentation.

  • Rocco Gaudenzi

    Rocco Gaudenzi teaches Philosophy of Science at the University of Verona and is a collaborator of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He earned his PhD degree in Physics at the Delft Technical University (NL) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. His current research focuses mainly on the historical epistemology of modelling and algorithms, with a particular interest on the cross-disciplinary conceptual and methodological connections between physics, computer science, neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

  • Ramiro Tau

    Ramiro Tau is a Doctor in Psychology from the National University of La Plata (Argentina). He carried out postdoctoral research stays at the Universities of Geneva, Neuchâtel, and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He currently conducts his research and teaching activities at Centre Jean Piaget, and the University of Neuchâtel. His fields of interest are developmental psychology, history of science and education.

Articles

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