Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychology

EAN: 9780521184809
Published: 19/06/2014
Language: English

This textbook connects the big ideas and key thinkers of psychology and philosophy in a clear and cohesive theoretical narrative. Students are led to understand the relations between different schools of thought, and to connect the various thinkers, theories and facts in psychology's history. Focusing on the major ideas that have reoccurred throughout history, such as the mind-body problem and the role of the mind in our experience, Martin Farrell shows how specific thinkers have explored the same ideas, but in different ways, leading to distinct schools of thought. The coherent narrative enables students to see the bigger picture, through which the historical and conceptual roots of psychology can be easily understood.

Part I. Philosophy of Science
1. Logical positivism and Popper's falsificationism
2. Kuhn and scientific revolutions
3. Lakatos and Feyerabend
research programmes and anarchism
Part II. Historical Development of the Philosophy of Mind
4. Descartes and the mind-body problem
5. Locke, Berkeley, and empiricism
6. Hume, Kant, and Enlightenment
7. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
Part III. Psychology
8. Psychophysics and physiological psychology
9. Evolution and psychology
10. Freud and psychoanalysis
11. Wundt and the birth of experimental psychology
12. Titchener, introspection, and positivism
13. Gestalt psychology
14. William James and the stream of consciousness
15. Dewey and functionalism
16. Behaviourism
17. Cognitive psychology
18. Modularity, neuroscience, and embodied cognition.