I consider a primary function of Division 24 to be to stimulate theoretical and philosophical work and to promote understanding of the centrality of such work in the broader Psychology community. My graduate training focused on research methodology and clinical psychology, but, starting with (actually, before) a theoretical dissertation, my career has been focused in theoretical and philosophical domains for over forty years. A principle interest of mine has been in models of the ontology of psychological phenomena, such as representation and cognition, learning, emotions, reflexive consciousness, and language; I have published over a hundred books, chapters, and articles addressing such phenomena. This work has generated an integrating model and modeling perspective called Interactivism. A current project is a book with the tentative title of The Whole Person: the draft is now over 900 pages and growing (people are complex!). Last year Synthese published an invited special issue on Interactivism, and another for Axiomathes is in preparation. There is an invited chapter on the Interactivist model in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology. I organize a biennial workshop on the model: the Interactivist Summer Institute. We held the fifth of these in June 2009 in Vancouver. I am editor of New Ideas in Psychology, a journal that has been open to wide ranges of work in theoretical and philosophical psychology since the early 1980s, and my current position is as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Cognitive Robotics and the Philosophy of Knowledge at Lehigh University.
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I am currently Chair of the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University, where I have been a member of the faculty since 1982 and a full professor since 1990. I was elected Fellow of Division 24 in 1987, and have maintained my affiliation with the Division cum Society ever since. I served as Associate Editor of The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology from 1992 to 1997, and as Consulting Editor from 1997 to 1999. From 1990-93 and then again in 1995-96 I served as the Division representative to the APA Council of Representatives. As a three-time Fulbright scholar to Germany, I have held visiting professorship at the University of Heidelberg in 1990, at the University of Leipzig in 1998, and at the University of Hamburg in 2004. While in Hamburg, I was Ernst-Cassirer Visiting Professor in the University's Philosophical Seminar. My publications over the years have had primarily to do with (a) conceptual and methodological issues in differential psychology generally and with personality psychology in particular, and with (b) the life and works of the German philosopher and psychologist William Stern (1871-1938). I believe firmly that philosophical inquiry is vital to the intellectual life of psychology, and for this reason consider Division 24 my disciplinary home. As president of the division, I would seek to further the tradition of intellectual excellence that the Society has long nurtured, and from which I myself have benefited over the years.

Member-at-Large

David Michael Goodman, PhD

David Goodman is a clinical psychologist and fellow at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital, where he works with underserved populations and participates in research looking at therapeutic process and outcome. Additionally, he is currently a Research Fellow and adjunct clinician at Boston University and an adjunct faculty at Regis College and Lesley University. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. He earned his Ph.D. at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology. His publishing record includes a forthcoming book on Levinas, ethical phenomenology, and constructs of selfhood, an article on Levinas and narcissism in Theory & Psychology, several articles in Pastoral Psychology on social justice, the history of the relationship between ethics and identity, and the implications of Levinas on psychotherapeutic process, and a forthcoming book chapter in Aron and Henik's book Answering a Question with a Question. His presenting record includes five consecutive years of presentations at the APA convention (Division 24, specifically), and several dozen presentations nationally and internationally at Levinas conferences, psychoanalytic gatherings, and other APA, APS, and regional meetings. If elected, his hope is to continue building upon prior efforts to identify and cultivate relationships with particular graduate and undergraduate programs and further develop interest for the division within student groups. He believes that to enrich the conversations taking place in the division and help facilitate their impact, it is important to find ways of bridging into mainstream conversations within the APA and welcome diverse voices into the division's discussions.

Kathleen L. Slaney, PhD

Kathleen Slaney joined the Theory and Methods research stream in the department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University in 2006. Her current interests span a number of areas, including historical and conceptual analysis of methodological approaches within psychological science, philosophy of psychological and related sciences, and theoretical and applied statistics and psychometrics. In particular, in her research she attempts to contribute to a better understanding of psychological scientific practice by bridging philosophy and history of science and the application and analyses of quantitative methods within psychological science. She teaches in the areas of both historical/theoretical psychology and quantitative methods for social and behavioural research. She became a member of APA Division 24 in 2008. She hopes to bring a fresh perspective on theoretical and philosophical issues as they pertain to the discipline generally and is dedicated to becoming informed of the diverse interests of the membership of Division 24 and representing those interests to the best of her ability if elected.