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Psychology : Pythagoras to Present.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (571 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262255233
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: PsychologyDDC classification:
  • 150.9
LOC classification:
  • BF81.M35 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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