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Historical and philosophical foundations of psychology / Martin Farrell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xiv, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 110700599X
  • 9781107005990
  • 0521184800
  • 9780521184809
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BF38 .F37 2014
Contents:
Part I. Philosophy of Science : -- 1. Logical positivism and Popper's falsificationism -- 2. Kuhn and scientific revolutions -- 3. Lakatos and Feyerabend: research programmes and anarchism -- -- Part II. Historical Development of the Philosophy of Mind : -- 4. Descartes and the mind-body problem -- 5. Locke, Berkeley and empiricism -- 6. Hume, Kant and enlightenment -- 7. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- -- Part III. Psychology : -- 8. Psychophysics and physiological psychology -- 9. Evolution and psychology -- 10. Freud and psychoanalysis -- 11. Wundt and the birth of experimental psychology -- 12. Titchener, introspection and positivism -- 13. Gestalt psychology -- 14. William James and the stream of consciousness -- 15. Dewey and functionalism -- 16. Behaviourism -- 17. Cognitive psychology -- 18. Modularity, neuroscience and embodied cognition.
Summary: "This textbook connects the big ideas and key thinkers of psychology and philosophy in a clear and cohesive theoretical narrative. Students are led to understand the relations between different schools of thought, and to connect the various thinkers, theories and facts in psychology's history. Focusing on the major ideas that have reoccurred throughout history, such as the mind-body problem and the role of the mind in our experience, Martin Farrell shows how specific thinkers have explored the same ideas, but in different ways, leading to distinct schools of thought. The coherent narrative enables students to see the bigger picture, through which the historical and conceptual roots of psychology can be easily understood."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Philosophy of Science : -- 1. Logical positivism and Popper's falsificationism -- 2. Kuhn and scientific revolutions -- 3. Lakatos and Feyerabend: research programmes and anarchism -- -- Part II. Historical Development of the Philosophy of Mind : -- 4. Descartes and the mind-body problem -- 5. Locke, Berkeley and empiricism -- 6. Hume, Kant and enlightenment -- 7. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- -- Part III. Psychology : -- 8. Psychophysics and physiological psychology -- 9. Evolution and psychology -- 10. Freud and psychoanalysis -- 11. Wundt and the birth of experimental psychology -- 12. Titchener, introspection and positivism -- 13. Gestalt psychology -- 14. William James and the stream of consciousness -- 15. Dewey and functionalism -- 16. Behaviourism -- 17. Cognitive psychology -- 18. Modularity, neuroscience and embodied cognition.

"This textbook connects the big ideas and key thinkers of psychology and philosophy in a clear and cohesive theoretical narrative. Students are led to understand the relations between different schools of thought, and to connect the various thinkers, theories and facts in psychology's history. Focusing on the major ideas that have reoccurred throughout history, such as the mind-body problem and the role of the mind in our experience, Martin Farrell shows how specific thinkers have explored the same ideas, but in different ways, leading to distinct schools of thought. The coherent narrative enables students to see the bigger picture, through which the historical and conceptual roots of psychology can be easily understood."--Provided by publisher.

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