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Professor John Haldane, FRSA, FRSEPh.D.,University of London (UK)
Professor of Philosophy and Director, Centre of Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs in the University of St. Andrews, Scotland; Visiting Professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences.
His many publications include The Church and the World, Atheism and Theism (with J J C Smart), An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Religion, Faithful Reason, and Seeking Meaning and Making Sense. He has held the Royden Davis Chair in Humanities at Georgetown University, and in 2006 was appointed a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture by Pope Benedict XVI. Considered Scotland’s leading philosopher, Prof. Haldane is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the recipient of honorary degrees from St Anselm College, NH, and the University of Glasgow.
Prof. Haldane teaches about moral and personalistic approaches to human nature and the relation of these to naturalistic and scientific world views. In exploring the moral dimension of psychology he challenges the putatively ‘value-neutral’ character of research and theory in the social sciences. He examines the values implicated in decision making and the relation of these to conceptions of human flourishing.
Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.Grant Bentley Chair in Theoretical Psychology
Ph.D., City University of New York
M.A., Hofstra University
Distinguished Emeritus at Georgetown University, Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford; Recipient of two Lifetime Achievement Awards given by the Division of History of Psychology and the Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology of the American Psychological Association; and Visiting Professor for the Institute for the Psychological Sciences.
Methods of Inquiry in Psychology and the Social Sciences: Historical developments within science and philosophy are considered in assessments of contemporary methods of inquiry. Critical appraisals to the foundational assumptions of psychological and social research are offered. Nomothetic vs. idiographic explanations are examined under the general heading of “defining the subject.”