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The value of philosophical questions and critical thinking for understanding the history and philosophy of psychology. Four interrelated themes that summarize the main issues discussed in this chapter: multiple psychologies, reflexive historiography, intersubjective science, and critical thinking. Part 1.
This course will provide a selective overview of the history of psychology from the mid-1800s to the present, with earlier forays into the philosophical and practical underpinnings of psychological questions where appropriate.
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- Philosophy of science
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List of figures List of boxes Preface Acknowledgements
Logical positivism and Popper’s falsificationism Kuhn and scienti c revolutions fi Lakatos and Feyerabend: research programmes and anarchism
The sheer amount of information available to today’s psychology student, and the ease with which that information can be obtained, is greater than it has ever been in the past. Though this is no doubt a blessing, it is not without its dangers. In particular, it is easy for the student to become bogged down in a mass of facts and details with little...
The book, as mentioned above, grew out of my undergraduate teaching, and so is aimed at undergraduate psychology students, though I hope that postgraduate students would also nd something of value in it. I have tried to write the book as fi clearly as possible, but it is inevitable that some technical terms will feature in the text. Where these occ...
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the history of psychology, this comprehensive undergraduate textbook emphasizes the philosophical, cultural, and social elements that influenced psychology’s development. The authors demonstrate that psychology is both a human (i.e., psychoanalytic or phenomenological) and natural (i.e., cognitive) science, exploring broad social-historical
This course will provide a selective overview of the history of psychology from the mid-1800s to the present, with earlier forays into the philosophical and practical underpinnings of psychological questions where appropriate. We will consider both the history of.
History of Psychology and Philosophy. • Focus: key historical figures from philosophy with an emphasis on their impact on psychology. • Historical Period to be covered: 570BC - 1873AD= 2443yrs! • From Pythagoras to J.S.Mill. • Not an exhaustive list of philosophers.
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psychology, introduce sources of data and methods for analyzing historical data, explain for the critical role of theory, and discuss the variety of ways in which psychologists can add historical depth and nuance to their work.
