Martin Farrell

Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook connects the big ideas and key thinkers of psychology and philosophy in a clear and cohesive theoretical narrative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 466
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 979g
• ISBN-13: 9781107005990
• ISBN-10: 110700599X
• Artikelnr.: 40603300

Autorenporträt

Martin Farrell is an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester. With over fifteen years' experience of teaching psychology, he has lectured on many aspects of the discipline but his main focus has always been on the interface between psychology and philosophy. He has lectured on the history of psychology for more than ten years, on consciousness for thirteen years, and has taught philosophy of science to postgraduate students for six years. This book is the fruit of this accumulated experience.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Philosophy of Science: 1. Logical positivism and Popper's falsificationism
2. Kuhn and scientific revolutions
3. Lakatos and Feyerabend: research programmes and anarchism
Part II. Historical Development of the Philosophy of Mind: 4. Descartes and the mind-body problem
5. Locke, Berkeley, and empiricism
6. Hume, Kant, and Enlightenment
7. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
Part III. Psychology: 8. Psychophysics and physiological psychology
9. Evolution and psychology
10. Freud and psychoanalysis
11. Wundt and the birth of experimental psychology
12. Titchener, introspection, and positivism
13. Gestalt psychology
14. William James and the stream of consciousness
15. Dewey and functionalism
16. Behaviourism
17. Cognitive psychology
18. Modularity, neuroscience, and embodied cognition.