ABSTRACT
We know James Mark Baldwin—as a foremost developmental psychologist, founder of psychology laboratories in different universities in North America, co-founder of the organic selection perspective in evolutionary thought, and connoisseur of the pleasures of living. Baldwin's aesthetic synthesis—pancalism—may be a formal net of concepts to map onto the realities of affective processes in contemporary psychology. Baldwin was the product of his time—when the curious geographically challenged label "American psychology" was not yet invented, and all of the developing new discipline was one around the World. Baldwin was caught in-between the glorifiers of the expressivity of natural language for psychology and those who would prefer the precision of mathematics. Baldwin's formulation of the canons of the method was an effort to overcome the tendencies that existed in his contemporary sciences to reduce all phenomena to static, causal explanatory entities. Baldwin introduced his specific terms "syndoxic" and "synnomic" to characterize the process of relations between inter-individually coordinated and intra-individually uniquely reconstructed meanings.
