Handbook of psychology : senses and intellect / James Mark Baldwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldwin, James Mark, 1861-1934., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Textbooks.

Psychology.

Psychology--Miscellanea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 343 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Handbook of psychology

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1890.

Summary:

"The justification of another handbook of Psychology is readily found in the present state of the science, a state of such enthusiastic and productive specialism that it is to be hoped no book will hereafter meet the requirements of higher education for more than a generation. The question of the relation of psychology to metaphysics, over which a fierce warfare has been waged in recent years, is now fairly settled by the adjustment of mutual claims. It is in the interests of this adjustment, which I believe to be part of the true philosophy of science in general, that this book is written. While giving more than usual attention to the rich and popularly little known results of the new methods--in psychometry, psychophysics, and neurology--I endeavor, wherever hypotheses of their ground and bearing upon the mental life have been advanced, to suggest and estimate them. Inasmuch, however, as the rational treatment of the data of the science constitutes a special department of metaphysics, empirical psychology must be concerned chiefly with the first of these tasks, and with the latter only as far as rational inferences can be confirmed empirically in the stage of development reached. Thus with the establishment of hypotheses, the science of fact will become broader and more profound and the reasoned conclusions of metaphysics will become the conclusions also of a sound and thoroughgoing induction. By throwing the more difficult and abstract points of discussion into smaller print in the text, I have endeavored to draw a line of demarcation for a more general or a more detailed course of instruction, as the earlier preparation of the student may make advisable. The "Further Problems for Study, " at the end of each chapter, are intended to indicate partially unexplored fields in which students may engage themselves in an original way"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

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