The transformation of psychology : influences of 19th century philosophy, technology, and natural science /
This book reveals some of the intellectual, social, technological, and institutional currents and practices that were commonplace during the 19th century and fostered a reappraisal of the scientific possibilities for psychology. This volume explores a collection of diverse areas of study that attemp...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
American Psychological Association,
[2001]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Eugenics and other Victorian "secular religions" / Raymond E. Fancher
- Practical phrenology as psychological counseling in the 19th-century United States / Michael M. Sokal
- Sealing off the discipline : Wilhelm Wundt and the psychology of memory / Kurt Danziger
- Psychology and memory in the midst of change : the social concerns of late-19th-century North American psychologists / Marlene Shore
- The psychology of mathematical beauty in the 19th century : the golden section / John G. Benjafield
- Cause into function : Ernst Mach and the reconstruction of explanation in psychology / Andrew S. Winston
- Charles Babbage, the analytical engine, and the possibility of a 19th-century cognitive science / Christopher D. Green
- Instincts and instruments / Katharine Anderson
- Philosophic doubts about psychology as a natural science / Charles W. Tolman
- Karl Marx and Wilhelm Dilthey on the socio-historical conceptualization of the mind / Thomas Teo
- Early development and psychology : genetic and embryological influences, 1880-1920 / Fredric Weizmann.