From soul to mind : the emergence of psychology from Erasmus Darwin to William James /

Early in the nineteenth century, psychology was considered a science of the soul; by the end of the century, it had abandoned the soul to become a science of the mind, says Edward Reed. In this lively and original account of psychology's formative years, Reed relates the failures and successes...

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Tác giả chính: Reed, Edward (Edward S.) (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
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Mục lục:
  • In search of psychology
  • The impossible science
  • Frankenstein's science
  • The breakdown in the concert of European ideas
  • The brief life of natural metaphysics
  • 1848 and all that
  • The three unconsciousnesses and how they grew
  • The apotheosis of positivism
  • The anomalous Mr. Darwin
  • The generation of 1879, or how philosophy emerged from psychology
  • William James: psychology as a science of experience.