Dr. David Leary

University Professor
Core Course Coordinator
320 Ryland Hall
Office: (804) 289-8302
Fax: (804) 289-8313

http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~dleary/

Teaching:
Core: Exploring Human Experience
Psychology in American Society and Culture
Religion and Psychology
Selfhood

Research:
History and philosophy of psychology
The social, cultural, and conceptual context and impact of psychology
The relations between psychology and other disciplines

Education:
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Selected Publications:

Books

A Century of Psychology as Science (2d rev. ed., co-edited with Sigmund Koch).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1992.  (Association of American Publisher’s “most outstanding scholarly and professional book in the social and behavioral sciences” in 1985; reissued in 1992 as a centennial publication of the American Psychological Association.)

Metaphors in the History of Psychology (edited volume).  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990). 

Chapters and Articles

“Instead of Erklären and Verstehen: William James on Human Understanding.”  In Uljana Feest (Ed.), Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen (pp. 101-122).  Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2007.

“G. Stanley Hall, A Man of Many Words: The Role of Reading, Speaking, and Writing in His Psychological Work.”  History of Psychology 9 (2006): 198-223.  (Named “the best article in the history of psychology in 2006” by the Society for the History of Psychology.)

“On the Conceptual and Linguistic Activity of Psychologists: The Study of Behavior from the 1890s to the 1990s and Beyond.”  Behavior and Philosophy 32 (2004): 13-35.

“A Profound and Radical Change: How William James Inspired a Reshaping of American Psychology.”  In Robert J. Sternberg (Ed.), The Anatomy of Impact: What Makes the Great Works of Psychology Great? (pp. 19-42).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2003.

“One Big Idea, One Ultimate Concern: Sigmund Koch’s Critique of Psychology and Hope for the Future.”  American Psychologist 56 (2001): 425-432.

“Naming and Knowing: Giving Forms to Things Unknown.”  Social Research 62 (1995): 267-298.

“William James, the Psychologist’s Dilemma, and the Historiography of Psychology: Cautionary Tales.”  History of the Human Sciences 8 (1995): 91-105.

“The Cult of Empiricism in Psychology, and Beyond” (co-authored by Stephen Toulmin).  In Sigmund Koch and David E. Leary (Eds.), A Century of Psychology as Science (pp. 594-617).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1992.

“William James and the Art of Human Understanding.”  American Psychologist 47 (1992): 152-160.  (Reprinted in anthologies in 1997, 2002, & 2007.)

“Communication, Persuasion, and the Establishment of Academic Disciplines: The Case of American Psychology.”  In Richard H. Brown (Ed.), Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse (pp. 73-90).  New York: Aldine deGruyter, 1992.