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RECALLING LATE MEMBERS
OF THE "DEMOCRACY OF THE INTELLECT"
During my life as an academic (both as student and
as faculty) I have been privileged to know some individuals who, in Jacob's
Bronowski's phrase, I think were members of the "democracy of the intellect".
This informal organization is composed of members who value disinterested
discussion as the primary purpose of higher education, and who understand
that the central concept of academic freedom (for both students and faculty)
is the right to be evaluated on academic performance, rather than conformity
with a particular school of thought. This section contains obituaries
on some of these individuals. Their numbers, in my view, are diminishing
as universities, because of various pressures, are moving away from being
devoted to the search for truth toward the search for comfort.
- Some thoughts on the teaching contributions of a reflective experimental psychologist: J.D. "Peter" Keehn (1925-95)
- Psychology's most visible and controversial figure from fifties to the nineties: Han Eysenck (1916-1997)
- A Pavlovian in Spirit: Richard Annells Champion (1925-1999)
- Pavlovian George Windholtz (1931-2002): An exemplar of scholarly "observation and observation" and a critical contributor to psychology, and hence to behavioral neuroscience
- Harvey Shulman (1945 - 2005), Concordia
University
This article is also available at: http://www.safs.ca/jan2006/shulman.html - David Lykken (1928-2006): A Polemicist Devoted to the Truth both in Research and Graduate Teaching
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS
MERIT VS. EQUITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
THE
NORTH AMERICAN
BIOETHICS INDUSTRY
REALISM APPLIED TO
THE DISCIPLINE OF PSYCHOLOGY
SEX DIFFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COMMENTARY
RECALLING LATE MEMBERS OF THE "DEMOCRACY OF THE INTELLECT"
DANIEL BERLYNE
(1924-76):
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