Hearing the inaudible experimental subject: Echoes of Inaudi, Binet's calculating prodigy

• Published in: History of psychology Vol. 18; no. 1; p. 47
• Main Authors: Burman, Jeremy Trevelyan, Guida, Alessandro, Nicolas, Serge
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2015
• Subjects: Aptitude; France; History, 19th Century; Humans; Mathematical Concepts; Psychology - history; France

Historians of psychology have traditionally focused on ideas (intellectual history), the "great men" who produced them (an older style of biography sometimes called "hagiography"), or-more recently-the influence of the contexts that shaped them (social and cultural history). A st...