Steven James Bartlett

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Steven James Bartlett
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Steven James Bartlett 2005, age 60
Born
Mexico City
Nationality American
Alma mater• Université de Paris (Ph.D., 1971)
• University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A., 1968)
• Raymond College, University of the Pacific (B.A., 1965)
Known for• Pathologies of normality
• Rejection of DSM's concept of mental disorders
• Conceptual therapy
• Metalogic of reference
Scientific career
Fields Epistemology
Psychology
Logic
Philosophy of science
Institutions• Willamette University (1988- )
• Oregon State University (1988- )
• Saint Louis University (1975-1984)
• Max-Planck-Institut (1974-75)
• University of Hartford (1972-74)
• University of Florida (1971-72)
• Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (1969-70)
Thesis A Relativistic Theory of Phenomenological Constitution: A Self-referential, Transcendental Approach to Conceptual Pathology (1970)
Doctoral advisor Paul Ricoeur
Website http://www.willamette.edu/~sbartlet

Steven James Bartlett (born 1945) is an American philosopher and psychologist notable for his studies in epistemology and the theory of reflexivity, and for his work on the psychology of human aggression and destructiveness, and the shortcomings of psychological normality. His findings challenge the assumption that psychological normality should serve as a standard for good mental health. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books and research monographs as well as many papers published in professional journals in the fields of epistemology, psychology, mathematical logic, and philosophy of science.

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Biography

Bartlett was born in Mexico City. He is the son of American author and artist Paul Alexander Bartlett and his wife, American poet Elizabeth Bartlett. Steven James Bartlett received his B.A. in 1965 from Raymond College, an Oxford-style honors college of the University of the Pacific, his M.A. in philosophy in 1968 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1971 from the Université de Paris, and later engaged in postdoctoral study in clinical psychology at Saint Louis University, 1975–77, and Washington University in St. Louis, 1983–84. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Prior to high school, Bartlett attended schools both in the United States and in Mexico while his father undertook a study of some 350 haciendas throughout Mexico. [7] Bartlett showed exceptional aptitude, skipping a grade in grammar school, attending college concomitantly while still in high school, and completing his undergraduate degree in three years, followed by a succession of scholarships and fellowships during undergraduate and graduate study. [1] [2] [3] [4] [6]

Bartlett served as professor at the University of Florida, 1971–72, and at the University of Hartford, 1972–74; was appointed research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung der Lebensbedingungen der wissenschaftlich-technischen Welt in Starnberg, Germany, 1974–75; served as consultant for the RAND-National Science Foundation Project in Regional Analysis and Management of Environmental Systems, 1975–78; served as professor at Saint Louis University, 1975–84; was Associate Editor of The Modern Schoolman , 1975–84, Member of the advisory board of the Dutch journal Methodology and Science, 1976–95, Member of the Global Advisory Board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, 2005- ; and has received honorary faculty appointments at Willamette University, 1988- , and at Oregon State University, 1988- . [1] [2] [3] [6] Bartlett is Trustee and Director of Publications for the international non-profit organization, Literary Olympics, Inc., 1994- . [1]

He is married to Karen Margo Bartlett (Germanist, cellist, and viola da gambist), daughter of Shirley Love and physicist Allan W. Love, designer of the antenna line feed for the Arecibo Observatory's radio telescope. [8]

Recognition and importance

Bartlett has received recognition in both disciplines of philosophy and psychology. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books and research monographs, and many papers published in professional journals. His research has been funded under grants by the National Science Foundation, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the Alliance Française, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Lilly Endowment, and others. His work in both disciplines has been supported by well-known authors and researchers including Paul Ricoeur, [9] Robert Hutchins, [10] Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, [11] Thomas Szasz, [12] M. Scott Peck, [13] Irving Greenberg, [13] and others. [1] [2] [3] [6] Bartlett's work has been translated into German, Portuguese, French, and Polish.

Awards and honors

Bartlett has received awards and honors for his work throughout his life, beginning at an early age: Award winner in local San Jose, California and regional San Francisco Bay Area Science Fairs for his research in microbiology, "Search for New Antibiotics," 1961; selected only student to appear on television's "Science in Action" with Nobel Laureate Melvin Calvin, San Francisco, California, 1961; awarded best student in chemistry in the school, Saratoga High School (California), 1961; National Science Foundation summer institute fellowship award, Santa Clara University, 1961; Santa Clara University scholarship award to attend university concomitantly while still in high school, 1961–62; award winner in local San Jose and regional Bay Area Science Fairs for reflector telescope and clock drive original design and construction, 1962; awarded four-year Presidential scholarship by Santa Clara University (tenure 1962–64, honors student, physics major); awarded Boyce Scholarship at Raymond College, University of the Pacific, 1964–65; Alliance Française Grunsfeld Fellow, Université de Paris, 1966–67; California State graduate fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1967–68; Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, California, fellowship in philosophy and mathematics, 1969–70; Raymond College, honored alumnus, High Table address, 1969; Université de Paris, Ph.D. with commendation from the jury, 1971; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft postdoctoral research fellowship, Max-Planck-Institut, Starnberg, Germany, 1974–75; Lilly Endowment and Saint Louis University Project C.O.V.E. (Career Oriented Values Education) research and development grant for university-level curriculum development in problem-solving, Saint Louis University, 1975–77; American Association for the Advancement of Science grant and National Science Foundation Chautauqua fellow, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, 1976–77; Saint Louis University, Beaumont Faculty Research Award, 1977; Outstanding Young Man of America Award, 1978; Saint Louis University citation for research, 1978; Willamette University, honorary research faculty appointment in psychology and philosophy, 1988- ; Oregon State University, honorary faculty appointment, professor of philosophy, 1988- . [1] [2] [3] [6]

Principal areas of research

As described in further detail in the sections that follow, Bartlett's research and publications can be divided into two main groups: studies in philosophy and studies in clinical psychology. In philosophy, his research has focused on the theory of reflexivity, self-referential argumentation, and the metatheory of reference and identification. In clinical psychology, his research has focused on human pathology as it is expressed in genocide, the Holocaust, war, terrorism, obedience, hatred, human ecological destruction, and human conceptual pathology. In addition, Bartlett's research in clinical psychology has sought to develop our understanding of what he calls human moral intelligence, as well as of the psychology of peer review and editorial bias, the phenomenology of hatred, the psychology of mediocrity, and the psychology of stupidity. He has challenged the conventional understanding and treatment of mental disorders as promoted by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Bartlett's publishing record and biographical information [1] [2] [3] [4] [6] show that his work developed during the following approximate periods:

Research and publications in philosophy

Phenomenology and the elimination of conceptual error

Beginning with Bartlett's doctoral dissertation, [9] whose doctoral jury members were French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (dissertation director), Belgian mathematical logician Jean Ladrière, and Belgian philosopher Alphonse de Waehlens, Bartlett developed an approach to the study of philosophical problems by means of a therapy for concepts. The approach took the form of a self-validating phenomenological epistemology whose purpose is the identification and correction of many conceptually self-undermining errors that Bartlett classified as conceptual pathologies. He applied the resulting methodology to a number of traditionally understood epistemological problems, as well as to portions of everyday, conventional conceptual vocabulary, to show that many of these must be recognized to be self-referentially inconsistent. He characterized the resulting methodology as self-validating in the sense that it cannot not be accepted without self-referential inconsistency.

Studies of the metalogic of reference and conceptual therapy

Bartlett first formulated his revisionary methodology within a phenomenological framework in which the concept of reference plays a logically primitive role; he later separated his approach to conceptual therapy from phenomenology. This took the form of a theoretically neutral metalogic of reference. [11] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

In 2021, Bartlett's most extensive and complex work in philosophy was published, Critique of Impure Reason: Horizons of Possibility and Meaning . [21] This massive study of nearly 900 pages develops and extends his earlier work relating to conceptual therapy and the metalogic of reference. [9] [14] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] Its principal objective is to formulate a logically compelling method that makes it possible to recognize the unavoidable boundaries—Bartlett calls these the "horizons"—of our conceptual frameworks so we may avoid the conceptual confusions that result when attempts are made to transgress beyond what is possible and meaningful. The Critique of Impure Reason then applies the method to a wide group of conceptually basic concepts (for example, space, time, causality, consciousness, the self, other minds, etc.) that play a central role in major philosophical questions and problems, and many of which are also relied upon in ordinary thinking and are used in the formulation of many scientific theories [27]

Studies of reflexivity

Bartlett has contributed to the field of study the general theory of reflexivity, which investigates the properties of systems capable of self-reference. [11] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [20] [25] As Bartlett has described, there are many such systems, ranging from reflexive formal systems in mathematics and in mathematical logic, to self-referential systems in artificial intelligence and the theory of computation, to self-referential systems that are physiologically based — an advanced example being that of human self-awareness and the capacity to reflect on that awareness. Secondary applications arise in connection with breakdowns in reflexive functioning found in certain psychopathologies. [22]

Research and publications in clinical psychology

Bartlett's studies relating to clinical psychology have focused on the following areas:

The psychology of human aggression and destructiveness

In 2005, Bartlett's book The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil was published. [22] The 200,000-word study applies the science of pathology to the human species in order to identify and describe many dispositionally-based pathologies that afflict our species, often without our awareness. A central purpose of the book is to bring together and discuss the work of twentieth century psychologists, psychiatrists, ethologists, psychologically focused historians, and others who have studied the underlying psychology of human aggression and destructiveness. The conclusions of the study emphasize that human pathology has many originating factors, that people obtain varied cognitive and emotional gratifications from such pathology, and that human pathology is a normal human condition and is therefore generally intractable, at least at this stage of human development. [22] Bartlett describes how deficits in what he defines as moral intelligence combine with the psychology of stupidity, which together form major contributors to the psychological shortcomings that result in human pathology. [28] In critical responses to the book, the study was commended by The Journal of Analytical Psychology: "Bartlett is a lucid, painstaking and illuminating writer. This is certainly a classic work of reference in the field." [29] The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic appraised the book as "a challenging and thought provoking approach that makes a significant contribution to an aspect of human psychopathology that is rarely or so comprehensively addressed." [30] About the book, M. Scott Peck commented: "[T]he study of evil is just beginning and you are a pioneer." [13] Eric Zillmer, Carl R. Pacifico Professor of Neuropsychology at Drexel University, commended the book: "Steven James Bartlett's The Pathology of Man marks the most comprehensive examination of evil to date. Drawing from different fields of study, including psychology and epistemology, Bartlett sets out on a Tour de Force of delineating the parameters on human evil.... The resulting text is a most welcome addition to the field and provides for fascinating reading. The Pathology of Man is a timely, scholarly, and important piece of work that should appeal to anyone who is interested in understanding human evil." [31] Author and President of the Jewish Life Network Irving Greenberg commented: "This book is stunning, upsetting, gripping.... [T]he book is a moral act of the highest order. These...comments would be incomplete without mentioning the erudition, the intellectual insight and playfulness, the gallows humor and the self-restraint which deepen and lighten this book." [31] Since the publication of The Pathology of Man, Bartlett has published a series of further books and papers related to the same and related subjects. [32] [33] [34] [35] [36]

Challenging the standard of psychological normality presupposed by contemporary psychiatry and much clinical psychology

In 2011, Bartlett's book Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health was published. [32] The book examines contemporary psychiatry's and clinical psychology's definition of mental health in terms of the baseline standard of psychological normality. Bartlett makes the case that this supposition has come to be accepted uncritically — even though that supposition is fundamental to current clinical theory and practice, and forms the core of the psychiatric classification system of the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ), which has become today's diagnostic authority. Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health questions and rejects this central assumption. Among the author's objections to this assumption is the reification by the DSM of syndromes (i.e., equating mere syndromes with real disease entities) despite the absence of an organic basis for the majority of alleged medical disorders. [32] Bartlett seeks to offer a constructive revision of what we should accept as a standard for good mental health. [32] A critical assessment by PsychCRITIQUES combined a review of both The Pathology of Man and Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health, evaluating the two books as follows: "Pathology and Normality contain many altogether usefully reframed concepts. [T]he semiotic analysis of nosologies offered in Chapter 2 of Normality [is] a most promising organizing conceptual framework, helpful in understanding the problems with DSM classifications. It could not be more relevant in our times.... I wish everyone would read Bartlett's chapter in Normality on the abuses of peer review and editorial bias (Chapter 7) and adopt his proposed code of conduct for peer reviewers and editors (p. 172). And Bartlett's treatment of relativism, the relativity of frameworks, and human evil in Pathology is absolutely limpid (Chapter 20). These and many other gems are scattered throughout the books. For this reason, and because the books present such an unusual stance that can provoke thoughtful consideration of the accepted truths in psychology, I highly recommend them.... Both books are well written and clearly structured. Bartlett follows a regular expository pattern by explaining objectives, logically and systematically developing arguments and conclusions, and presenting frequent summaries. The premises and implications are intellectually easy to grasp, unforgettable, and alarming.... Bartlett includes considerations and concepts that are seldom presented elsewhere." [37]

Psychotherapy and its effectiveness

Over a period of decades, Bartlett has weighed the question whether psychotherapy is truly effective. In 1987, his book When You Don't Know Where to Turn: A Self-Diagnosing Guide to Counseling and Therapy was published and subsequently adopted by the Psychology Today Book Club and the Psychotherapy Book Club. [38] The book presents a self-diagnosing algorithm to help readers identify, based on effectiveness studies, potentially most promising forms of therapeutic care. The algorithm takes into account individual symptoms, circumstances, personality, and life goals. [38] The book was followed by the publication of the author's summary appraisal of the effectiveness of psychotherapy, [39] about which psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, a long-time critic of psychiatry, commented: "It is one of the best, if not the best, that I have read on this subject." [12] Similarly, psychologist Hans H. Strupp, who has extensively studied the effectiveness of psychotherapy, commented: "I find myself in substantial agreement with [Bartlett's] major points which are well stated." [40] [41]

The psychology of higher education and burn-out among liberal arts faculty

Bartlett studied these issues in a series of published papers that seek to explain faculty demoralization that can result from deteriorating conditions affecting the state of higher education in America. [42] [43] [44] [45]

The psychology of animal rights

Bartlett published a psychological and epistemological analysis of the blocks that prevent the majority of people from recognizing and respecting the sentience of members of other species. The study, "Roots of Human Resistance to Animal Rights: Psychological and Conceptual Blocks," was developed within a legal framework in order to make evident the ways in which human laws have reflected the underlying psychological and conceptual blocks to compassionate treatment of non-human animals. [46] Bartlett was later invited by Brazil's Ministry of Education to address the International Congress on Animal Rights, Salvador, Brazil, Oct. 8–11, 2008. For use at the Congress, "Roots of Human Resistance to Animal Rights" was translated into Portuguese and then published. [47]

The psychology of creativity

Bartlett's studies relating to the nosology of mental illness and his critique of the assumption that psychological normality should be equated with good mental health led him to examine the psychology of creative individuals. [32] The psychology of artists and other highly creative people has been studied from the diagnostic perspective of DSM's psychiatric classification of mental disorders, with the result that some outstanding creative individuals may be considered to have various degrees of psychopathology. [32] Bartlett has argued that this is not only short-sighted, but it questionably presumes that the psychology of normality should serve as arbiter for mentally healthy emotional, aesthetic, and cognitive characteristics and abilities. [32] In a group of further publications, Bartlett has described in detail how it is possible to enrich and deepen our understanding of both the psychology of creativity and the psychology of normality. [32] [35] [36] [48]

Psychological studies of philosophy

With training and research in psychology and philosophy, Bartlett has undertaken a psychological examination both of philosophy as a discipline and of philosophers as a psychologically characterizable group. [49] [50] [51] [52] Related to this work, Bartlett has sought to identify and describe "epistemological intelligence" as a distinguishable variety of human intelligence, one which he explains is especially important to philosophers. In this context, he has sought to understand the challenges posed by the psychological profile of philosophers that can obstruct the development and implementation of the skills associated with epistemological intelligence. [52]

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  25. 1 2 Steven James Bartlett, "The Idea of a Metalogic of Reference." Methodology and Science, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1976, pp. 85-92.
  26. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "Roots of Human Resistance to Animal Rights: Psychological and Conceptual Blocks." Animal Law, Vol. 8, 2002, pp. 143-76. Electronically re-published 2002 by Michigan State University’s Detroit College of Law, Animal Law Web Center. Translated and published online in German. Steven James Bartlett, "Wurzeln menschlichen Widerstands gegen Tierrechte: Psychologische und konceptuelle Blockaden."]
  27. ↑ Critique of Impure Reason: Horizons of Possibility and Meaning, Chap. 18-28.
  28. ↑ Bartlett first directed attention to what he calls human "moral intelligence" in his 2002 work, "Roots of Human Resistance to Animal Rights: Psychological and Conceptual Blocks." Animal Law, Vol. 8, 2002, pp. 143-76. He then studied the nature of moral intelligence in detail in his 2005 book, The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 2005, Chapter 18; also pp. 5, 8, 64, 101, 174, 184, 218, 293, 304, 310-312. In Bartlett's study, deficits in moral intelligence constitute one of the central factors that contribute to human pathology
  29. ↑ Marcus West, "Steven James Bartlett: The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil – Book Review." The Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 51, No. 3, June, 2006, pp. 486-487.
  30. ↑ W. W. Meissner, M.D., "The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil by Steven James Bartlett: Book Review." The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Vol. 71, No. 3, 2007, pp. 267-268.
  31. 1 2 "Preface" to Steven James Bartlett, The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 2005, pp. vii-viii.
  32. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Steven James Bartlett, Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers, 2011.
  33. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "The Ecological Pathology of Man." Mentalities/Mentalités: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2006, pp. 1-18.
  34. ↑ James Bartlett, Steven (2008). "The humanistic psychology of human evil: Ernest Becker and Arthur Koestler". Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 48 (3): 340–363. doi:10.1177/0022167807305249. S2CID   145540658.
  35. 1 2 Steven James Bartlett, "From the Artist's Perspective: The Psychopathology of the Normal World." The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2009, pp. 235-256.
  36. 1 2 Steven James Bartlett, "The Dilemma of Abnormality." In Thomas G. Plante (Ed.), Abnormal Psychology across the Ages. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013, Vol. 3, Chapter 1, pp. 1-20.
  37. ↑ Alejandra Suarez, "The Worst Devils of Our Nature: A Review of Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health and The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil." PsychCRITIQUES, June 13, 2012, Vol. 57, Release 23, Article 2 (no pagination specified).
  38. 1 2 Steven James Bartlett, When You Don't Know Where to Turn: A Self-Diagnosing Guide to Counseling and Therapy. New York: Contemporary Books/McGraw-Hill, 1987. Now freely available with a 2014 Preface as an eBook through Project Gutenberg; separate online description of the book and its purpose.
  39. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "The Problem of Psychotherapeutic Effectiveness." Methodology and Science, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1990, pp. 75-86.
  40. ↑ Hans H. Strupp, quotation from letter to the author dated November 14, 1990, published online and in the open access paper, Steven James Bartlett, "The Problem of Psychotherapeutic Effectiveness," updated 2014.
  41. ↑ A further discussion of these issues is found in Bartlett's book, Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health, Chap. 9, pp. 237-240. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers, 2011.
  42. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "Acedia: The Etiology of Work-Engendered Depression." New Ideas in Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1990, pp. 389-396.
  43. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "Barbarians at the Door: A Psychological and Historical Profile of Today's College Students." Methodology and Science, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1993, pp. 18-40. (A concurrent publication in the Netherlands of the following article:) Steven James Bartlett, "Barbarians at the Door: A Psychological and Historical Profile of Today's College Students." Modern Age, Vol. 35, No. 4, Summer, 1993, pp. 296-310. (In a "Note to Our Readers," Vol. 36, No. 3, page 303, the journal notified readers of this version of the paper that Modern Age expressed regret for "numerous and substantive changes and abridgments...to which the author had not consented," and offered to send readers upon request a reprint of the text as originally written.)
  44. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "The Loss of Permanent Realities: Demoralization of University Faculty in the Liberal Arts." Methodology and Science, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1994, pp. 25-39.
  45. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "The Psychology of Faculty Demoralization in the Liberal Arts: Burnout, Acedia, and the Disintegration of Idealism." New Ideas in Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1994, pp. 277-289.
  46. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "Roots of Human Resistance to Animal Rights: Psychological and Conceptual Blocks." Animal Law, Vol. 8, 2002, pp. 143-76. Electronically re-published October, 2002, by the Michigan State University's Detroit College of Law, Animal Law Web Center.
  47. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "Raízes da resistência humana aos direitos dos animais: Bloqueios psicológicos e conceituais." Daniel Braga Lourenço (Trans.). Brazilian Animal Rights Review (Revista Brasileira de Direito Animal), Vol. 2, No. 3, July/December, 2007, pp. 17-66.
  48. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "When Normal Is Harmful, and Abnormal Is Healthy." In the electronic research database, Health and Wellness. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2013.
  49. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "Narcissism and Philosophy." Methodology and Science, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1986, pp. 16-26.
  50. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "Philosophy as Ideology." Metaphilosophy, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1986, pp. 1-13.
  51. ↑ Steven James Bartlett, "Psychological Underpinnings of Philosophy." Metaphilosophy, Vol. 20, Nos. 3 & 4, 1989, pp. 295-305.
  52. 1 2 Steven James Bartlett, "Epistemological Intelligence." Monograph, open access publication, 2017, PhilPapers and HAL (Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

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