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Through the rearview mirror :

Macnamara, John.

Through the rearview mirror : historical reflections on psychology / John Macnamara. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1999. - 1 online resource (xix, 291 pages) : illustrations - A Bradford Book Ser. . - Bradford Book Ser. .

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index.

Introduction: three very general observations on psychology and its history -- Plato on learning -- Plato on truth and knowledge -- Aristotle on knowledge and understanding -- Aristotle on perception: three questions -- The Book of Genesis and psychology -- The impact of Christianity on psychology -- St. Augustine of Hippo: Christian Platonist -- St. Thomas Aquinas on individuals and concepts -- St. Thomas Aquinas and dualism -- Duns Scotus and William of Ockham: the cusp of the Middle Ages -- Thomas Hobbes: grandfather of modern psychology -- Rene Descartes: medieval man of the Renaissance -- John Locke: a no-nonsense developmental psychologist -- Gottfried Leibneiz and necessary truths -- Bishop Berkeley and the consequences of nominalism -- David Hume: Some consequences of British empiricism -- Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence -- Immanuel Kant and the foundational stance in psychology -- John Stuart Milles: a contemporary psychologist -- Charles Darwin: the Newton of biology -- Wilhelm Wundt: The founder of experimental psychology -- Franz Brentano: Intuition and the mental -- Sigmund Freud and the concept of mental health -- John B. Watson and the Behaviorists -- Some notes on the Gestalt Movement -- Extroduction.


English.

9780262278850 0262278855 058515712X 9780585157122 0262519313 9780262519311

6824 MIT Press 9780262278850 MIT Press


Psychology--History.
Psychology and philosophy.
Psychology.
Philosophy.
Behavioral Sciences.
Humanities.
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Psychiatry and Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY--History.
Psychology.
Psychology and philosophy.
Psychologie.
Filosofie.
Filosofie van de geest.
Psychology.
Social Sciences.


Electronic books.
History.

BF105 / .M33 1999eb

150/.9

BF105 / .M33 1999eb

1999 K-420 BF 105 / M169t 1999