LISA M. OSBECK
April 2005



Lisa M. Osbeck

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

State University of West Georgia

losbeck@westga.edu

www.westga.edu /~psydept/

 

I.  Academic Employment History

University of West Georgia  (August 2000-present)  

 Assistant Professor of Psychology

Georgia Institute of Technology, (August  2003-May-2004)

Faculty Development Fellow   (Visiting Assistant Professor, Public Policy) University of Pittsburgh (September 1999 - May 2000)

Visiting Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science

University of Nottingham (August 1998-August 1999)

Research Affiliate, College of Medicine

Georgetown University (January 1991 - May 1996)

             Teaching Assistant, Philosophy of Psychology, History of Psychology

Wesley College (September 1989 - May 1991)

             Instructor of Psychology

 

II. Teaching Assignments

 

A. Courses Taught

PSYC 3730                   Social Psychology                                                            Fall 2000

Psyc 3900                   Personality and Motivation                                             Fall 2000

PSYC 4500                   Explorations into Creativity                                            Spring 2001

Psyc 3900                   Personality and Motivation                                             Spring 2001

PSYC 6810                   Graduate Tutorial-Colloquia Presentations                  Spring 2001

PSYC 4030                   History and Philosophy of Psychology                         Fall 2001

Psyc 3900                   Personality and Motivation                                             Fall 2001

PSYC 6287                   Clinical Practicum                                                           Fall 2001

PSYC 4030W                History and Philosophy of Psychology                         Spring 2002

Psyc 3900                   Personality and Motivation                                             Spring 2002

PSYC 6287                   Clinical Practicum                                                           Fall 2001

PSYC 3900                   Personality and Motivation                                             Fall 2002

PSYC 6280                   Theory and Practice of Clinical Assessment   Spring 2003

PSYC  4150                  Tests and Measurements                                                 Spring 2003

PSYC 3900W                Personality and Motivation                                             Spring 2003

PST 3127                        Science, Technology, and Human Values                          Fall 2003/Spring2004 

PSYC 3900W                Personality and Motivation                                             Fall 2004

PSYC 4220                   Research Explorations                                                    Fall 2004         

PSYC 3900W                Personality and Motivation                                             Spring 2005

PSYC 4085/                  Horizon Seminar:  Human Science                                Spring 2005

5085                       Research Methods

 

B.  Student Work Directed (Undergraduate)

Davon Houston  High School Guidance Center                                    Spring 2001

     Practicum Experiences in Human Services  

Jeshun Barksdale   Advanced Readings in Autism                              Spring 2001

     Directed Readings/Independent Study

MyyA Ford    Interpersonal Dynamics                                                   Spring 2001

     Directed Readings/Independent Study

Nevia McClure  Psychoanalytic Social Psychology                              Summer 2001

     Directed Readings/Independent Study

Stacia Bridges   Learning Disabilities                                                  Fall 2001

     Directed Readings/Independent Study

Bridgette Willis   Adolescent Mental Health                                        Fall 2001

     Directed Readings/Independent Study

Kari Maybank  Rape Crisis Center                                                         Fall 2001

     Practicum Experiences in Human Services                          

Kelly O’Brien   Child Mental Health                                                      Fall 2001

     Practicum Experiences in Human Services  

Shannon Kelly   Personality and Motivation                                        Summer 2002

     Directed Readings/Independent Study      

Libby Wood    Adolescent Mental Health                                             Summer 2002

     Practicum Experiences in Human Services  

Dennis Landers   Language and Social Construction                           Fall 2002

    Directed Readings/Independent Study

Kimberly Davis   Personality and Motivation                                      Fall 2002

    Directed Readings/Independent Study-Honors

La Tasha Long    Advanced Readings in Personality                           Fall 2002

    Directed Readings/Independent Study

Kayla Murphy   History and Philosophy of Psychology                      Spring 2003

    Directed Readings/Independent Study

John Paul Whatley   Independent Study in Data Analysis                   Spring 2003

     Independent Project

Kelly Poff         Advanced Readings in Personality                                Fall 2004

             Independent Project

 

C.  Graduate Work Directed

Tracy Simmons   Advanced Practicum                                                  Summer 2001

    Independent Study

Tashiana Elliott   Creativity and Intuition                                              Fall 2001

   Graduate Directed Readings

Ozioma Okonkwo   Personality and Motivation                                  Spring 2002

  Graduate Directed Readings

Ozioma Okonkwo   Cognitive Neuroscience                                        Spring 2002

  Graduate Directed Readings

Christopher Ruth     Professional Writing                                             Spring 2002

  Graduate Independent Project

Marion Smith   Philosophy of Science                                                 Summer 2002

   Graduate Directed Readings

Julia Whisenhunt   Research on Schizophrenia                                    Summer 2002

   Graduate Independent Project

Carla Willis       Advanced Readings in Schizophrenia                        Summer 2002

   Graduate Directed Readings

Michelle Willis  Advanced Readings in Mood Disorders                    Summer 2002

  Graduate Directed Readings

Nur Banu Ibaoglu   Practicum                                                                 Fall 2002

    Graduate Independent Project

Carla Rogers-Willis  Advanced Topics in Abnormal

Psychology: Personality Disorders                                                          Spring 2003

Graduate Directed Readings

Michelle Willis  Advanced topics Abnormal Psychology:                   Spring 2003

             Somatoform Disorders

Graduate Directed Readings

Ozioma Okonkwo  Sensation and Perception                                        Spring 2003

Graduate Directed Readings                                                                                         

Ozioma Okonkwo    Lifespan and Human Development                     Spring 2003

             Graduate Independent Project

Julia Whisenthunt    Advanced Qualitative Research Methods           Fall 2004

             Graduate Independent Project

Dennis Rob Cash         Independent Study in Research Methods        Fall 2004

             Graduate Independent Project

Annie Derthick             Independent Study in Research Methods        Fall 2004

             Graduate Independent Project

Kristopher Reyes         Independent Study in Research Methods        Fall 2004

             Graduate Independent Project

 

D.  Masters Theses Directed   

 

Smith, Marion T.  Dreams and the magical mind.  Defended July, 2004.

 

Wisenhunt, Julia Lizabeth.  Understanding the Schizophrenic Experience:  Insight into the Sufferer’s World, Approved Dec. 3, 2003

 

      

III.  Academic Achievement

Doctor of Philosophy                                                    Georgetown University

Master of Arts                                                                  Michigan State University

Bachelor of Arts, High Distinction                                     University of Michigan

 

IV.  Professional Growth and Development

 

Research Consultant Georgia Institute of Technology

Project: Cognition and Learning in Interdisciplinary Laboratory Cultures

Principal Investigators:   Nancy Nersessian, Wendy Newsome

Funded by the National Science Foundation:  ROLE Grant REC 0106773

 

 

 

 

Awards and Fellowships

 

2005 Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 24 (Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology).

 

Faculty Development Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology August 2003-May 2004

 

Fellow and Associate:

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh 

Associate since July, 2001

Fellow since September, 1999

 

Member:

American Psychological Association

Cheiron

European Society for the History of Human Sciences

International Society for Ecological Society

Society for the Teaching of Psychology

Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology

 

Manuscript review:  Journal of General Psychology, Theory & Psychology

 

D. Publications

 

Osbeck, L. and Robinson, D. (Forthcoming).  Philosophical theories of wisdom.  In R. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of wisdom: Psychological perspectives.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Osbeck, L. (2005).  Method and theoretical psychology.   Theory and psychology, vol. 15(1), 5-26.

 

Reber, J. & Osbeck, L. (2005).  Social psychology:  Key issues, assumptions, and implications.  In B. Slife, J. Reber, and F. Richardson (Eds.).  Developing critical thinking in psychology.  Washington, DC, American Psychological Association Books.

 

Osbeck, L. (2004).  Asperger syndrome and capitalist social character.  Critical Psychology 11, 50-67.

 

Machamer, P. and Osbeck, L.  (2004). The Social in the Epistemic. In P.  Machamer and G. Wolters, (Eds.), Values, science and objectivity, University of Pittsburgh Press.

 

Machamer, P. & Osbeck, L.  (2003).  Scientific Normativity as Non-Epistemic:  A Hidden Kuhnian Legacy.  Social Epistemology.

 

Machamer, P. and Osbeck, L. (2002). Perception, conception and the limits of the direct theory. :  In L. Hahn (Ed.), The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene.  The Library of Living Philosophers, Vol. XXIX.  Chicago:  Open Court Publishing Company, pp. 129-146.

 

Osbeck, L.  (2002).  Hypothesis testing behavior (Book review article).  International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 16 (2), 187-190. 

 

Osbeck, L. (2001).  Direct apprehension and social construction:  Revisiting the concept of “Intuition”.  Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, v. 21 (2), pp.  118-131.

 

Malone, K. and Osbeck, L.  (2001).  Is gender a meaningful category?  Psychologie in Oesterreich, 4, p. 302-306

 

Clegg, J., Sheard, C., Cahill, J., and Osbeck, L. (2001).  Severe intellectual disability and transition to adulthood , British Journal of Medical Psychology, v.  74, 151-166.

 

Osbeck, L.  (2001).  New party, still potluck?  (Book review article).  Theory and Psychology,   vol. 11(3), 443-447.

 

Machamer, P. and Osbeck, L.  (2000).  The new science of learning: mechanisms, models, and muddles. THEMES in Education, vol. 1.

 

Osbeck, L.  (1999).  Conceptual problems in the development of a psychological notion     of ‘intuition’.  Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 29,3, 229-249.

 

Osbeck, L., Perreault, S., and Moghaddam, F. (1997).  Similarity and attraction among  majority and minority groups in a multicultural context.   International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 21, 1, 113-123.

 

Osbeck, L.  (1995).  Social constructionism and the pragmatic standard revisited:  A reply to Botschner. Theory and Psychology, 5, 153-157.

 

Osbeck, L.  (1993).  Social constructionism and the pragmatic standard.  Theory and Psychology, 3, 337-349.

 

E. Presentations and Invited Addresses:

 

Osbeck, L.  Early twentieth century investigations of ‘intuition’.  Presented for the Key Barkley Symposium at the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham, NC, March, 2005

 

Osbeck, L.  Historical reflections of the meaning of mixed methodologies.  Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham, NC, March, 2005

 

Osbeck, L. and Machamer, P. (2004).  The status and use of mathematical objects in Descartes and human science.  Presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for the History of Human Sciences, Salzburg, Austria, July, 2004.

 

Osbeck, L.  (2004).  Distributed cognition or generalized other?  A comparison of recent cognitive science and classical pragmatist accounts of teaching and learning.  Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 2004

 

Osbeck, L. (2003).  Intuition from the high road to the low:  A comparison of historical and contemporary understandings.  Invited address, Georgia State University Hard Data Café Colloquium series.  Atlanta, GA, October.

 

Osbeck, L. & Tissaw, M. (2003).  Philosophy, psychology, and points between.  Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association,  Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August.

 

Osbeck, L. (2003).  Method and the subdiscipline of theoretical psychology.  Presented at the semi-annual meeting of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey, June.

 

Machamer, P. & Osbeck, L.  (2002). Scientific normativity as non-epistemic:  A hidden Kuhnian legacy.  Presented at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Milwaukee, WI,  November.

 

Osbeck, L.  (2002).  Instinct, primitive cognition, and the transformation of intuition.  Presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for the History of Human Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, August.

 

Osbeck, L.  (2002).  Reflections on the Edifice Complex.  Colloquium presented to the Department of Psychology, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, March.

 

Machamer, P. & Osbeck, L.  (2001).  The remembrance of things active.  Presented at the International History, Philosophy and Science Education Conference (with History of Science Society), Denver, CO, November.

 

Machamer, P. & Osbeck, L.  (2001). The remembrance of things problem.  Presented at the Fourth In-house Conference, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.  Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 27.

 

Osbeck, L. (2001). Toward an alternative conception of Asperger’s Syndrome.  Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, August.

 

Osbeck, L.  (2001).  Direct apprehension in a socially constructed world:  Revisiting the Concept of Intuition.  Presented at the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, Calgary, Alberta, CA, June.

 

Osbeck, L(2000).  Autistic spectrum diagnoses:  A critical evaluation of assumptions and trends.  Presented at the Annual Meeting

             of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August.

 

Osbeck, L.  (2000). Intuitive and linear thinking in clinical research and practice.  Annual Conference of Endocrinology.  University of Pittsburgh Medical School.  Pittsburgh, PA.  June.

 

Machamer, P. and Osbeck, L.  (2000). Models and muddles in the “New Science of Learning”.  The Theoretical Cognition Group, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, February.

 

Osbeck, L. A look into intuitions concerning “intuition” (1999).   Annual lunch-time colloquium series, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct.

 

Osbeck, L.  Interpreting Staff Understandings of Autistic Conditions (1999).  Presented at the International Human Sciences Research Conference meeting (IHSRC), Sheffield, England, UK, July.

 

Osbeck, L. (1998).  Nineteenth century critiques of intuitionism in relation to notions of direct  cognition. Presented at the meeting of the European Society  for the History of Human Sciences (ESHHS).   Durham, England, August.

 

Osbeck, L. (1998). Irrational unconscious inference:  A critical look at intuition in psychology.  Presented at the 12th annual meeting of the History and Philosophy Section,  British Psychological Society.  York, England, April, 1998.

 

Osbeck, L. and Pope, A. (1998). Skeletons in the clinic closet:  history, philosophy, and service design.     Presented to the Subfaculty of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, U.K., November.

 

Osbeck, L. (1997). Incorporating traditional philosophical perspectives into analysis of contemporary  notions:  The example of intuition (1997).  Presented to the Interest Group on Qualitative Methods in Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, U.K., May.

 

Jost, J., Osbeck, L., Rubini, M., and Tissaw, M.  (1996). Shared and unshared aspects of ideological social representations.  Presented at the International Conference on Social Representations:  Questioning the state of the art.  London, England, June.

 

Osbeck, L.  (1996). Clinical applications of biofeedback assisted behavioral medicine. Seminar sponsored by the Total Physio-Functional Diagnostic Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, June, 1996.

 

Osbeck, L.  (1995). Intuition, rationality, and discourse.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York, NY, August.

 

Osbeck, L., Perreault, S., and Moghaddam, F. (1995). Similarity and attraction among majority and minority groups in a multicultural context.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Savannah, GA, February.

 

Epstein, S., Williams, D., Osbeck, L., and Clauw, D.  (1994).  Effect of psychological factors on pain perception in fibromyalgia.  Presented at the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, Chicago, IL, November.

 

Osbeck, L. (1994).  Another look at the naturalistic fallacy.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American  Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA, August, 1994.  Received Excellence of  Student Paper Award, Division 24.

 

Moghaddam, F. & Osbeck, L.  (1992).  The as is, the as if, and the could-be:  Exploring new roles for  psychologists.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross Cultural  Research, Santa Fe, NM, May.

 

F. Symposia Organized

 

Revisiting representation and its discontents.  Symposium organized for the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., August, 2005 (accepted).

 

Revisiting method-theory relations and the issues posed.  Symposium organized for the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey, June, 2003.

 

      G. Manuscripts in Preparation:

 

Book proposal: Distinguishing Intuitions

A critical comparison of philosophical and psychological appeals to “intuition”

 

Editing special issue, Theory & Psychology:  Reflections on Critical Engagement with Mainstream Psychology (with Michael Tissaw)

 


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