The psychology of consciousness / Charles Daly King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Charles Daly, author.

Series:

International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method.

International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 256 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace & Company, 1932.

Summary:

Psychology is a science and its subject-matter concerns man. With the materials of which men's bodies are built, with the genetic relation of these bodies to others in the organic kingdom, with the delineations of the courses of nerve and other currents and with the various physical events occurring in them, other sciences are concerned. In spite of much resolute treading upon the toes of these fellow-workers by many modern psychologists we must maintain that psychology's proper business is the investigation of those processes in man which we are accustomed to call conscious and of those, if any, which resemble conscious processes. In the most general terms possible, the subject-matter of psychology is that which is implied in the question: what are we? or perhaps better, what is a man? As C. K, Ogden puts it, "Conchology cannot (answer), nor yet Ontology; nor can Physics. Physiology can help us only in part. Psychology is the only means by which this momentous question can ever be fully answered." And the significance of "this momentous question" is only intensified when it is put in the concrete form in which it applies to each of us as individuals--"Who am 'I'?." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

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