Through the rearview mirror: historical reflections on psychology
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Main Author: Macnamara, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press c1999
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Item Description:"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-280) and index
Introduction: three very general observations on psychology and its history -- Plato on learning -- Plato on truth and knowledge -- Aristotle on knowledge and understanding -- Aristotle on perception: three questions -- The Book of Genesis and psychology -- The impact of Christianity on psychology -- St. Augustine of Hippo: Christian Platonist -- St. Thomas Aquinas on individuals and concepts -- St. Thomas Aquinas and dualism -- Duns Scotus and William of Ockham: the cusp of the Middle Ages -- Thomas Hobbes: grandfather of modern psychology -- Rene Descartes: medieval man of the Renaissance -- John Locke: a no-nonsense developmental psychologist -- Gottfried Leibneiz and necessary truths -- Bishop Berkeley and the consequences of nominalism -- David Hume: Some consequences of British empiricism -- Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence -- Immanuel Kant and the foundational stance in psychology -- John Stuart Milles: a contemporary psychologist -- Charles Darwin: the Newton of biology -- Wilhelm Wundt: The founder of experimental psychology -- Franz Brentano: Intuition and the mental -- Sigmund Freud and the concept of mental health -- John B. Watson and the Behaviorists -- Some notes on the Gestalt Movement -- Extroduction
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 291 p.)
ISBN:0262133520
058515712X
9780262133524
9780585157122

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