Hibberd, F. J. (2007). The philosophical underpinnings of psychology - critical or situational realism. In M. Moussa & G. Brown (Eds.), Engaging Realism: Proceedings of the International Association for Critical Realism (pp. 1-8). Universities of Wollongong & Sydney. ISBN 1-74108-130-1
Hibberd, F. J. (2006). Review: The Essential Vygotsky. R. W. Rieber and D. K. Robinson (Eds.). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004. Journal for the History of the Behavioural Sciences, XLII(2), 178-179.
Hibberd, F. J. (2005). Unfolding
Social Constructionism. New York: Springer.
This book examines social
constructionism as a metatheory of psychology. It does not consider
constructionist accounts of psycho-social phenomena, but it does assess
certain assumptions which are said to underpin those accounts, assumptions
which are primarily semantic and epistemological. The first part of
the book explains why the charges of relativism and self-refutation
leveled at social constructionism miss their target, and it considers
a constructionist attempt to defend the metatheory by appropriating
the concept of performative utterances. The second part of the book
challenges the generally accepted view that social constructionism
is antithetical to positivist philosophy of science. This is done
via an examination of the doctrine of conventionalism, constitutive
relations, dualism, Wittgenstein's meaning-as-use thesis, verificationism,
operationism, linguistic phenomenalism, and Kant's limitations of
human knowledge. It is shown that, in certain respects, these topics
unite social constructionism with its bête noire logical positivism,
and that psychology's repeated endorsement of these ideas hinders
the development of a rigorous psycho-social science. The book ends
with a brief, speculative section in which it is suggested that the
skepticism and internalism of social constructionist metatheory is
an unconscious strategy of survival against failure.
Hibberd, F. J. (2004). Conventionalism
and constitutive relations. Heraclitus, 117, 1-5.
Hibberd, F. J. (2003). Anderson's
relevance to current issues in philosophical psychology. Heraclitus,
106, 4-6.
Turtle, A. M. & Hibberd,
F. J. (2002). History & Philosophy of Psychology at the University
of Sydney. European Society for the History of the Human Sciences
Newsletter, vol. 20, no.2.
Hibberd, F. J. (2002). Reply
to Gergen. Theory & Psychology, 12(5), 685-694.
Hibberd, F.J. (2001). Gergen's
social constructionism, logical positivism, and the continuity of error.
Part I: Conventionalism. Theory & Psychology, 11(3), 297-321.
Hibberd, F. J. (2001). Gergen's
social constructionism, logical positivism, and the continuity of error.
Part II: Meaning as use. Theory & Psychology, 11(3), 323-346.
Hibberd, F. J. (2001). Relativism
versus realism - all but a specious dichotomy. History of the Human
Sciences, 14, 102-107.
Hibberd, F. J. (2001). Logical
positivism and Gergen's social constructionism: No radical disjunction
in 20th century psychological metatheory. In J. Morss, N. Stephenson
& H. van Rappard (Eds.). Theoretical Problems of Psychology,
(pp. 171-180). Kluwer: Dordrecht.
Hibberd, F. J. (1995). Can
a psychological statement be neither true nor false? In I. Lubek, R.
van Hezewijk, G. Pheterson & C. Tolman (Eds.), Trends and Issues
in Theoretical Psychology, (pp. 367-372). New York: Springer
Hibberd, F. J. (1991). Freud's
revolution or conceptual evolution? A reply to McClean. Australian
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