Psychological Knowledge: A Social History and Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780415379311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 428 str.

Martin Kusch

Opis

Psychologists and philosophers have assumed that psychological knowledge is knowledge about, and held by, the individual mind. Psychological Knowledge challenges these views. It argues that bodies of psychological knowledge are social institutions like money or the monarchy, and that mental states are social artefacts like coins or crowns.
Martin Kusch takes on arguments of alternative proposals, shows what is wrong with them, and demonstrates how his own social-philosophical approach constitutes an advance. We see that exists a substantial natural amount of philosophical theorising, a body of work that tries to determine the nature and structure of folk psychology.
Examining the workings of constuctivism, Psychological Knowledge is an invaluable introduction to the history of psychology and the recent philosophy of mind.

Recenzje

'This work is a model of clarity ... It is written by an author fully in command of his material, seeking to advance debate by serious engagement with much serious literature.' - History of Psychiatry

Spis treści

Part 1: A social history of psychological knowledge: the controversy over thought psychology in Germany, 1900-20  Introduction to Part 1  1. The Wurzburgers  2. Friends and foes  3. Recluse or drillmaster versus interlocutor and interrogator  4. Purist versus promiscuist  5. Collectivist versus individualist  6. Protestant versus Catholic  7. Conclusions  Interlude  Part 2: The Sociophilosophy of folk psychology  Introduction to Part 2  8. The folk psychology debate  9. Folk psychology as a social institution

O autorze

Martin Kusch is Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books, including Psychologism (Routledge).