The SAGE Handbook of Theoretical Psychology

Henderikus J Stam, Huib Looren de Jong

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781473924918
• eBook ISBN: 9781526416025
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psicología
• Subtopic: Historia y teoría en psicología

The Sage Handbook of Theoretical Psychology is a comprehensive resource that explores the foundational and evolving theories within the field of psychology. This handbook emerged from a conversation between the editors, recognizing the absence of a dedicated handbook on psychological theory that covered the wide range of theories. It addresses the implicit role of theory in all aspects of psychology, often overshadowed by the dominant emphasis on empiricism.

The handbook begins with foundational questions central to contemporary psychology, including chapters on cognitive representations, evolutionary theory, the extended mind thesis, mental causation, feminist psychology and cultural psychology. Each chapter provides an in-depth exploration of these topics, updated to reflect the latest developments and debates in the field.

Contributors to this volume come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and nationalities, ensuring a rich and multifaceted perspective on psychological theory. They tackle complex issues such as the definition and role of mental representations, the adaptation of evolutionary psychology to criticism, the integration of machine learning into cognitive repertoires, the implications of mental causation for moral responsibility and free will, and the necessity of a truly cultural psychology.

The Sage Handbook of Theoretical Psychology is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and students seeking to deepen their understanding of psychological theory. It provides a comprehensive and nuanced exploration of the field, equipping readers to engage with the theoretical underpinnings of psychology and contribute to its ongoing development.

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustration List
• Notes on Editors and Contributors
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• Part 1 Foundational Positions
• 1 Foundations of Cognitive Science: Mental Representation
• 2 Evolutionary Psychology
• 3 Extended Mind, Agency, and Machine Learning1
• 4 Mental Causation, Moral Responsibility, and Effective Intentions
• 5 Cultural Psychology: Capturing Human Meaning-Making Processes1
• 6 Embodied and Embedded Cognition
• 7 Psychology and Neuroscience: Autonomy Lost and Found
• Part 2 Theoretical Tools and Approaches
• 8 From Theory Construction to Deconstruction: The Many Modalities of Theorizing in Psychology∗
• 9 The Problem of Measurement in Psychology
• 10 Philosophy, Realism and Psychology’s Disciplinary Fragmentation*
• 11 Reflective, Formative, and Network Models: Causal Interpretations of Three Different Psychometric Models
• 12 Historiography, Historical Kinds, and Indeterminate Functionalism in Psychology
• 13 Mechanistic Explanation in Psychology
• Part 3 Socio-Cultural and Critical Orientations to Psychology
• 14 The Psychology of Globalization: Rethinking Culture and Self
• 15 Dialogism, Bakhtin and Beyond
• 16 Wittgenstein and Psychology
• 17 Feminist Psychology: Theoretical Transformations, Resistances and Subversions
• 18 Ecological Psychology: Theoretical Foundations and Philosophical Commitments
• 19 German Critical Psychology as Theoretical Psychology
• 20 Social Construction
• Part 4 Recent Developments in Theory
• 21 Technology and the Conduct of Everyday Life
• 22 Reflexivity and the History of Psychology∗
• 23 Concepts of Disorder for Psychopathology
• 24 Psychosocial Studies With Psychoanalysis∗
• 25 Relational Theory
• 26 Embodiment
• 27 Affect, Emotion and Feeling
• Index