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(1993) Annals of theoretical psychology, Dordrecht, Springer.
Woodward and Devonis in their article, Toward a New Understanding of Scientific Change: Applying interfield theory to the history of psychology, extend the examples of interfield theories (such as those discussed in Darden & Maull, 1977) to cases from the history of psychology. In addition, they develop a comprehensive model of scientific change that they label "interfield science". Their "interfield science" aims at being a more comprehensive model than did the generalizations from the cases discussed by Darden and Maull; also, it is more pluralistic in advocating diverse kinds of relations among areas of science, including both interfield bridges and reduction. This commentary will focus on two points: 1) another study of interfield theories in psychology, and 2) the contrast between interfield and interlevel analyses, on the one hand, and reduction analyses, on the other.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2986-6_8
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Darden, L. (1993)., Interfield theories and strategies for theory change, in H. Van Rappard, P. Van Strien, L. Mos & W. J. Baker (eds.), Annals of theoretical psychology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 141-144.
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