Epistemologia historyczna jako podstawa metodologiczna dla krytycznej historiografii psychologii – Krystyny Zamiary badania dynamiki pojęć i programów psychologicznych.
Historical Epistemology as the Methodological Basis for the Critical Historiography of Psychology – Krystana Zamiara’s Studies of the Dynamics of Psychological Notions and Programs

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to showcase the usefulness of Jerzy Kmita’s methodology of historical epistemology for research in the field of the history of psychology analyzing the example of Krystyna Zamiara’s research of the dynamics of psychological concepts and programs. Both Zamiara and Kmita were members of the Poznań Methodological School that began to form in 1960s and developed in 1970s at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Historical epistemology is a methodology of studying the process of the development of science, based on Marks’s dialectical materialism. It assumes that science is a social practice which development is determined by social, historical processes as well as ontological and epistemological assumptions of any scientific societies. Krystyna Zamiara applied historical epistemology to study covert assumptions determining the development of psychological programs. She also analyzed the development and the use of the notion of psychological parallelism and the consequences of accepting or rejecting parallelism for modern psychology. The article also points to similarities between Krystyna Zamiara’s historiography of psychology and the critical psychology in terms of philosophical inspirations, research subjects and goals. In the light of the identified similarities, Krystyna Zamiara can be considered a precursor of critical historiography of psychology in Poland

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