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Through the rearview mirror : historical reflections on psychology / John Macnamara.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bradford Book SerPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 291 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262278850
  • 0262278855
  • 058515712X
  • 9780585157122
  • 0262519313
  • 9780262519311
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Through the rearview mirror.DDC classification:
  • 150/.9 21
LOC classification:
  • BF105 .M33 1999eb
NLM classification:
  • 1999 K-420
  • BF 105
Other classification:
  • 77.01
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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"A Bradford book."

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

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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.

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