Philosophical Principles of the History and Systems of Psychology (eBook)

Essential Distinctions

Frank Scalambrino (Autor)

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2018
XVII, 251 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-74733-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Taking philosophical principles as a point of departure, this book provides essential distinctions for thinking through the history and systems of Western psychology. In line with the aims of the American Psychological Association's Society for the History of Psychology, this book is concisely designed to help readers navigate through the length and complexity found in history of psychology textbooks. Neither a history textbook, seeking to maximize inclusion of historical content, nor a doxography, this book presents philosophical and historically-based principles and distinctions for organizing and thinking through the diversity, complexity, and history of systems constituting contemporary Western psychology. From Plato to beyond Postmodernism, this book 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.

Frank Scalambrino, Ph.D. (Duquesne University) teaches philosophy at John Carroll University, Ohio, USA. An award-winning author and professor, and an inductee to 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.'

Autor

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." 

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Project of the Philosophical Archeology of the History and Systems of PsychologyChapter 2: Some Historically-Based Essential General DistinctionsChapter 3: Pre-Modern to Early Modern: From Mirror of God to Mirror of NatureChapter 4: The Early Modern Battle for the Archimedean PointChapter 5: Modernism to Post-Modernism: Method as Archimedean PointChapter 6: Conclusion: Post-Modern Turning Away from Method.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.3.2018
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 251 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Schlagworte: Archimedean Point • Descartes • Freud • History & Systems of Psychology • jung • Kant • Kant’s Copernican Revolution • Philosophical Archeology of Psychology • philosophy of psychology • Principles of Post-Kantian Speculation and Naturalization • Principles of Psychology • schools of psychology • Society for the History of Psychology • Western psychology
• ISBN-10: 3-319-74733-9 / 3319747339
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-74733-0 / 9783319747330