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Through the Rearview Mirror Historical Reflections on Psychology

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ISBN-10: 0262133520

ISBN-13: 9780262133524

Edition: 1999

Authors: John MacNamara

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Showing how a number of thinkers through the ages have approached problems of mental representation and the acquisition of knowledge, Macnamara discusses the relevance of these approaches to modern cognitive psychology.
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Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/16/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

A Word to Readers
Editor's Note
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Three Very General Observations on Psychology and Its History
Plato on Learning
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
Plato on Truth and Knowledge
The Problem of Truth--Psychological Version
Bibliographical Note
Aristotle on Knowledge and Understanding
Biographical Note
Postscript
Bibliographical Note
Aristotle on Perception: Three Questions
Bibliographical Note
The Book of Genesis and Psychology
Bibliographical Note
The Impact of Christianity on Psychology
Bibliographical Note
St. Augustine of Hippo: Christian Platonist
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
St. Thomas Aquinas on Individuals and Concepts
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
St. Thomas Aquinas and Dualism
Bibliographical Note
Duns Scotus and William of Ockham: The Cusp of the Middle Ages
Biographical Notes
Bibliographical Note
Thomas Hobbes: Grandfather of Modern Psychology
Biographical Note
Addendum Characterizing Contemporary Psychology
Bibliographical Note
Rene Descartes: Medieval Man of the Renaissance
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
John Locke: A No-Nonsense Developmental Psychologist
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
Gottfried Leibniz and Necessary Truths
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
Bishop Berkeley and the Consequences of Nominalism
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
David Hume: Some Consequences of British Empiricism
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
Immanuel Kant and the Foundational Stance in Psychology
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
John Stuart Mill: A Contemporary Psychologist
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
Charles Darwin: The Newton of Biology
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
Wilhelm Wundt: The Founder of Experimental Psychology
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
Franz Brentano: Intuition and the Mental
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
Sigmund Freud and the Concept of Mental Health
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
John B. Watson and the Behaviorists
Biographical Note
Bibliographical Note
Some Notes on the Gestalt Movement
Biographical Notes
Bibliographical Note
Extroduction
Postscript
Bibliographical Note
Notes
Glossary
References
Index