Overview
Articulates the principles operable for thinking through the history and systems of psychology
Focuses on the principles operable in differentiating the history and systems of psychology
Offers readers key philosophical distinctions with which readers may orient to contemporary psychology’s plethora of methods, schools and approaches
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophical Principles of the History and Systems of Psychology
Book Subtitle: Essential Distinctions
Authors: Frank Scalambrino
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74733-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74732-3Published: 09 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09065-4Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74733-0Published: 28 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 251
Topics: Pedagogic Psychology, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, History of Psychology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences