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An intellectual history of psychology

Explores the most significant ideas about human nature from ancient to modern times, and examines the broader social and scientific contexts in which these concepts were articulated and defended. Daniel N. Robinson treats each epoch in its own terms, revealing the problems that dominated the age and engaged the energies of leading thinkers.
eBook, English, ©1995
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©1995
History
1 online resource (viii, 381 pages) : illustrations
9780299148430, 9781282738744, 9786612738746, 0299148432, 1282738747, 661273874X
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pt. 1: Philosophical psychology. Defining the subject ; Psychology in the Hellenic age : from the Pre-Socratics to the Dialogues ; The Hellenistic Age : Aristotle, the Epicureans, and the Stoics ; Patristic psychology : the authority of faith ; Scholastic psychology ; the authority of Aristotle ; Nature and spirit in the Renaissance
pt. 2: From philosophy to psychology. Empiricism : the authority of experience ; Rationalism : the geometry of the mind ; Materialism : the enlightened machine
pt. 3: Scientific psychology. The nineteenth century : the authority of science ; From systems to specialties : the crucial half century (1870-1920) ; Contemporary formulations
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