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A New Logical Foundation for Psychology

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Authors:
  1. Jens Mammen

    1. Niels Bohr Professorship Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg Øst, Denmark

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  • Provides a basis in mathematical-philosophical foundations
  • Explores an elaborate logic of derivation of psychological theories
  • Examines new implications for research in contemporary cognitive science
  • Provides an interdisciplinary synthesis based on psychology, logic, mathematics, cognitive science, and history of science

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)

Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology (BRIEFSTHEORET)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: A New Way in Psychology

    • Jens Mammen
    Pages 1-3

  3. The Human Sciences and Their Field

    • Jens Mammen
    Pages 5-12

  4. The Permanent Crisis of Psychology

    • Jens Mammen
    Pages 13-27

  5. A New Beginning

    • Jens Mammen
    Pages 29-35

  6. A Human Psychology

    • Jens Mammen
    Pages 37-44

  7. Consequences of the Duality in Humans’ Relations to the World of Objects

    • Jens Mammen
    Pages 45-54

  8. Sense and Choice Categories

    • Jens Mammen
    Pages 55-88

  9. The Burden of Freedom and the Hard Problem

    • Jens Mammen
    Pages 89-90

  10. “The Two Cultures” and the Place of Psychology

    • Jens Mammen
    Pages 91-93

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 95-130
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About this book

This SpringerBrief provides an interdisciplinary synthesis based on psychology, logic, mathematics, cognitive science, and the history of science. It presents psychology as a science that suffers from a reduced understanding of the most fundamental logic in our practical-bodily encounters with the world, including with our fellow human beings. The Brief offers a new “dual” logic that is based on the duality between identification and description of objects, including persons. The Brief ties in modern mathematics as a tool that can be used to catch this duality in a precise manner. 


Featured topics in this Brief include: 
  • The emergence of Mechanism.
  • The duality in animal and human subject-object relations.
  • Psychology’s compatibility with natural sciences.
  • Four cornerstones of modern mathematics.
  • The Extensional Method. 

A New Logical Foundation for Psychology will be
of interest to psychologist, philosophers, and mathematicians concerned with basic theoretical and methodological problems. 



Authors and Affiliations

  • Niels Bohr Professorship Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg Øst, Denmark

    Jens Mammen

About the author

JENS MAMMEN is emeritus professor from Aarhus University, Denmark, and since 2009 honorary professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, now also affiliated the Niels Bohr Professorship Centre for Cultural Psychology. He studied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at the Niels Bohr Institute 1960 to 1963 and Psychology 1961 to 1968, both at Copenhagen University. He graduated in Psychology 1969 from Aarhus University as a magister with theses on cybernetic models in Psychology and experimental investigations of visual perception. He received his dr.phil. in Psychology 1983 with a thesis on the logical structure of Psyche, using Mathematical Topology. He was ass. Professor and Docent until 2000 when he was appointed professor in Cognitive Psychology, Aarhus University. He has been Dean of faculty, Head of department, Chairman of the governing board for the Danish Research School in Psychology and held several other academic posts. . 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A New Logical Foundation for Psychology

  • Authors: Jens Mammen

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67783-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67782-8Published: 23 November 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67783-5Published: 03 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8363

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 130

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology

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