Acknowledgments

This manuscript occasionally draws upon material presented or published elsewhere: Osbeck, L. & Nersessian, N. (Reference Osbeck and Nersessian2017), Epistemic identities in interdisciplinary science, Perspectives on Science, 25(2), 226–260; Osbeck, L. & Nersessian, N. J. (Reference Osbeck and Nersessian2013), Situating distributed cognition, Philosophical Psychology, Special Issue: Extended Cognition: New Philosophical Perspectives. 27(1), 82–97. Osbeck, L. & Nersessian, N.J. (Reference Osbeck, Nersessian, Proctor and Capaldi2012). The Acting Person in Scientific Practice. In R. Proctor and J. Capaldi (Eds.), Psychology of Science: Implicit and Explicit Reasoning (pp. 89–111). New York: Oxford University Press; Osbeck, L. (Reference Osbeck2005). Method and theoretical psychology. Theory & Psychology, 15(1), 5–26. An early version of some of the ideas developed here was presented in the context of the 2016 Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology, sponsored by the American Psychological Foundation and coordinated by APA Division 1.

I have had the great fortune to work with extraordinary interdisciplinary persons as mentors and collaborators. In order of their appearance in my life, I am especially beholden to Dan Robinson, James Lamiell, Rom Harré, Fathali Moghaddam, Jennifer Clegg, Peter Machamer, Nancy Nersessian, Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Barbara Held, Saulo Araujo, and Giridhari Lal Pandit. I must include Henderikus Stam, who supported my work since I was a graduate student. They all have my heartfelt admiration and gratitude, but they are not responsible for any excesses and omissions in this book or work elsewhere. Thanks also to Ruthellen Josselson, Heidi Levitt, Ron Miller, Michael Stuart, Alan Tjeltveit, and Fred Wertz for especially helpful conversations and resources that relate in at least a broad way to the themes of this work. I am indebted to many additional friends and colleagues in the American Psychological Association Divisions 24 (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology), 5 (Quantitative and Qualitative Methods), and 1 (Society for General Psychology). They know, I hope, who they are.

I am grateful to the excellent editorial staff at Cambridge University Press for their support and guidance through all stages of production. I also benefited from the suggestions of four anonymous reviewers on the original proposal for this project, and hope they will not mind some departure from it. Thanks to the Department of Psychology, the College of Social Science, and the VPAA’s office at the University of West Georgia for granting me a leave of absence during which to complete the manuscript. Thanks to my students, especially Ram Vivekananda, Garri Hovhannisyan, Dan Eamon Slattery, Suraj Sood, Gary Senecal, India MacWeeney, and Maurice “Dominique” Crossley.

To my family, gratitude abundant and eternal.