Psychology : Pythagoras to Present.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (571 pages)
- The MIT Press Series .
- The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 History, Psychology, and Science -- 2 Science and Psychology in Ancient Greece -- 3 Statics and Dynamics in Ancient Greece -- 4 From Aristotle to the Enlightment: Pagan Psychologies Give Way to Christianity -- 5 The Enlightenment -- 6 British Empiricism and Kant: What Is Reality? -- 7 Scottish and English Practical Psychology -- 8 Darwin and Evolutionary Thinking -- 9 Nineteenth-Century Science and Psychology's Rise -- 10 Biological Psychology: A Brief History -- 11 The New Psychology: Wundt, Wurzburg, and Muller -- 12 Early-Twentieth-Century Psychology: Titchener and Freud -- 13 Pragmatism, Functionalism, Peirce, and James -- 14 Twentieth-Century Applied Psychology and Early Behaviorism -- 15 Gestalt Psychology and Kurt Lewin -- 16 Science, Application, and Theory: Pavlov, Guthrie, and Hull -- 17 Radical Behaviorism and Cognitive Science: Contrasting Psychologies of the Twentieth Century? -- Notes -- References -- Index.
A history of ideas about mind, knowledge, the self, ethics, and free will, and their importance as more than just precursors of current thinking.
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Psychology -- History. Social sciences -- History.