To what does the term psychology refer? / Maurice Mandelbaum.
Abstract:
"The issue I wish to raise is whether it is merely a matter of happenstance that the discipline to which we refer as psychology' includes the specialties and sub-specialties which it does include, or whether ... these have arisen because psychologists have at various times been forced to create these specialties in order to solve other problems ..."
Studies in history and philosophy of science 2 (1972), p. 347-361