Philosophical Principles of the History and Systems of Psychology

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Project of the Philosophical Archeology of the History and Systems of Psychology

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   Pages 1-43

3. Some Historically Based Essential General Distinctions

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   Pages 45-88

4. Pre-Modern to Early Modern: From Mirror of God to Mirror of Nature

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5. The Early Modern Battle for the Archimedean Point

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6. Modernism to Post-Modernism: Method as Archimedean Point

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   Pages 161-194

7. Conclusion: Post-Modern Turning Away from Method

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   Pages 195-213

8. Back Matter

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Taking philosophical principles as a point of departure, this book provides essential distinctions for thinking through the history and systems of Western psychology. The book is concisely designed to help readers navigate through the length and complexity found in history of psychology textbooks. From Plato to beyond Post-Modernism, the author examines the choices and commitments made by theorists and practitioners of psychology and discusses the philosophical thinking from which they stem. What kind of science is psychology? Is structure, function, or methodology foremost in determining psychology's subject matter? Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is not the same as the psychoanalyst's view of it, or the existentialist's, so how may contemporary psychology philosophically-sustain both pluralism and incommensurability? This book will be of great value to students and scholars of the history of psychology. 

• Philosophy of Psychology
• Descartes
• Freud
• Kant
• Jung
• Schools of psychology
• Philosophical Archeology of Psychology
• History & Systems of Psychology
• Principles of Psychology
• Archimedean Point
• Kant’s Copernican Revolution
• Principles of Post-Kantian Speculation and Naturalization
• Western psychology
• Society for the History of Psychology

“Scalambrino (John Carroll Univ.) offers a heady brew of the history of philosophy and psychology. … Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students.” (B. T. Harding, Choice, Vol. 56 (04), December, 2018)​

• Department of Philosophy, John Carroll University, University Heights, OH, USA

  Frank Scalambrino

Frank Scalambrino, PhD teaches philosophy at John Carroll University, USA. An award-winning author and professor, and an inductee to the international honor society Chi Sigma Iota, he has taught graduate-level courses in philosophy and psychology at the University of Dallas and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, including "History and Systems of Psychology." 

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