Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychology – Ebook PDF Version

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521184800
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521184809
• Author: Martin Farrell (Author)

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

Table contents:

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