Psychology : Pythagoras to present / John C. Malone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malone, John C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--History.

Psychology.

Social sciences--History.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (571 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A history of ideas about mind, knowledge, the self, ethics, and free will, and their importance as more than just precursors of current thinking.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

1 History, Psychology, and Science

2 Science and Psychology in Ancient Greece

3 Statics and Dynamics in Ancient Greece

4 From Aristotle to the Enlightment: Pagan Psychologies Give Way to Christianity

5 The Enlightenment

6 British Empiricism and Kant: What Is Reality?

7 Scottish and English Practical Psychology

8 Darwin and Evolutionary Thinking

9 Nineteenth-Century Science and Psychology's Rise

10 Biological Psychology: A Brief History

11 The New Psychology: Wundt, Wurzburg, and Muller

12 Early-Twentieth-Century Psychology: Titchener and Freud

13 Pragmatism, Functionalism, Peirce, and James

14 Twentieth-Century Applied Psychology and Early Behaviorism

15 Gestalt Psychology and Kurt Lewin

16 Science, Application, and Theory: Pavlov, Guthrie, and Hull

17 Radical Behaviorism and Cognitive Science: Contrasting Psychologies of the Twentieth Century?

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-554) and index.

ISBN:

0-262-29329-3

9786612240348l

0-262-25523-5

1-282-24034-X

OCLC:

646804535