Patterns of Discovery : An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science.

By W. Bean. 1960

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Measurement Theory, Psychology and the Revolution That Cannot Happen (2009, background): “It was George Atwood (1784) who made up a simple but nevertheless ingenious apparatus to verify it (Hanson, 1965, pp. 99–105).”
What can recent replication failures tell us about the theoretical commitments of psychology? (2014, background): “Many great advances have been made by expressing reality in terms of mathematically formulated physical laws (for discussion, see Elvee, 1992; Hanson, 1958; Ladyman, 2002; Margenau, 1950; Rescher, 1984, 1996; Spencer Brown, 1957).”
Remembering motivation research: toward an alternative genealogy of interpretive consumer research (2006, background): “Commensurate with the positions put forward by Fleck (1979[1935]), Hanson (1960), Kuhn (1962) and Feyerabend (1975) against the possibility of a theory-neutral observation language, an important quotation highlights Dichter’s position in relation to naïve empiricism.”