Thinking about Thinking : Studies in the Background of Some Psychological Approaches.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. John Locke's Empiricism and its Rationality -- 3. Spinoza's Treatment of Thinking in Relation to Modern Approaches -- 4. Unconscious Thinking in its Historical Setting -- 5. Some Aspects of Freud's Approach to Thinking -- 6. Intelligence and Thinking: I. Galton's Contribution -- 7. Intelligence and Thinking: II. Alfred Binet's Approach -- 8. Intelligence and Thinking: III. Some Other Views -- 9. Insight and Mediation -- 10. Concepts and Recognition -- 11. Language, Exploration and Interaction -- Index.

Originally published in 1965, this title is a series of exploratory essays on approaches to thinking. The central topic is the relation of processes of an associative kind (sometimes irrational, in so far as they are not enmeshed with a world of shared experience) to those involving some degree of reference to a common world and hence forming the basis of constructive, critical and logical thought.

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