How to study forms of intelligence ? The questions of Alfred Binet (1857-1911)

Chairman : Patrick Boucheron

Abstract

French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) is famous for having invented the metric intelligence scale, ancestor of the IQ, between 1904 and 1911. This paper will review the prior conceptual transformations that enabled intelligence to become the subject of this type of approach, and A. Binet's questioning of the definition of intelligence and the methods by which it can be studied or, in a certain sense, measured.

Stéphanie Dupouy

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Strasbourg, and affiliated with AHP-Prest (Nancy/Strasbourg). My research focuses on the history of psychology and medicine in France (XIX^th-XX^th centuries), the epistemology of the psychological and human sciences, and medicine.