A history of scientific psychology : its origins and philosophical backgrounds /
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New York ; London :
Basic Books, Inc., Publisher,
[1970]
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. Introduction: . 1. Psychology and the history of science ; 2. Foundations of science and philosophy
- Part two. Grecian and medieval backgrounds: 3. From Plato to Freud ; 4. The Aristotelian background ; 5. Ancient roots of scientific and mental-health concepts ; 6. The earlier medieval background ; 7. The later medieval background
- Part three. On historical significance and psychology's key problems: 8. History as selective perception: some crucial problems ; 9. The mind-body problem and the challenge of positivism ; 10. Problems of selfhood and volitional freedom
- Part four. From the Renaissance to the Modern Period: 11. The Seventeenth-Century psychology of Hobbes and Descartes ; 12. Joh Locke's essay: it's scope and significance ; 13. Spinoza' hormic psychology ; 14. The rationalism of Leibnitz and the psychology of Wolff ; 15. The Kantian background ; 16. The Berkeleian background ; 17. The Humean background ; 18. Empiricism becomes associationism ; 19. The Scottish School and its "faculties" ; 20. The Milean backgrounds ; 21. The scientific foreground: Herbert and Lotze ; 22. Bain and the scientific foreground ; 23. Wundt and the scientific foreground