ISBN:
9783319002422
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 74 p, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Beenfeldt, Christian The philosophical background and scientific legacy of E.B. Titchener's psychology
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Philosophy of mind
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Psychology History
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Philosophy
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Philosophy (General)
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Philosophy of mind
;
Psychology History
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Titchener, Edward Bradford, 1867-1927
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Psychology
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Titchener, Edward B. 1867-1927
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Psychologie
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Selbstbeobachtung
Abstract:
¿This volume offers a new understanding of Titchener's influential system of psychology popularly known as introspectionism, structuralism and as classical introspective psychology. Adopting a new perspective on introspectionism and seeking to assess the reasons behind its famous implosion, this book reopens and rewrites the chapter in the history of early scientific psychology pertaining to the nature of E. B. Titchener's psychological system. Arguing against the view that Titchener's system was undone by an overreliance on introspection, the author explains how this idea was first introduc
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; I Intellectual Background; 1 Early British Associationism; 1.1 The Psychology of Empiricism; 1.2 Thomas Hobbes; 1.3 John Locke; 1.4 David Hume; 1.5 Elementism, Reductionism, Sensationism, and Association; References; 2 Mature British Associationism; 2.1 David Hartley; 2.2 James Mill; 2.3 John Stuart Mill; 2.4 A Physical Science of the Mental; References; Part II The System of Introspectionism; 3 Wundt and Titchener; 3.1 Wundt and the Beginning of Modern Psychology; 3.2 The Wundt-Titchener Relationship; References; 4 Titchener's System of Psychology
Description / Table of Contents:
4.1 A Structural Psychology4.2 An Elementary Chemistry of the Mind; 4.3 Dynamic Mental "Atoms"; 4.4 The Elementary Units as Sensationistic; 4.5 Elementism, Reductionism, Sensationism, and Association; 4.6 An Englishman Representing the British Tradition; References; Part III The Preeminence of Analysis, Not Introspection; 5 The Decline and Fall of Introspectionism; 5.1 No Mere Issue of Reliability; 5.2 Special Training Required; 5.3 The Experimenter as a Scientific Apparatus; 5.4 All Science Begins with Analysis; 5.5 No Introspection Through the Glass of Meaning; 5.6 Analysis is Its Own Test
Description / Table of Contents:
References6 The Imageless Thought Controversy; 6.1 Bewußtseinslagen; 6.2 Dogmatic Affirmation and Denial; 6.3 Waiting for Godot; 6.4 Other Symptoms; 6.5 The Final Demise; References; 7 Psychological Analysis: Not Introspection Simpliciter; 7.1 Analogy: "Hydro-Monism"; 7.2 A Speculative Science; 7.3 Repudiating the Facts of Introspection; 7.4 "Introspection" in Newspeak; References
Note:
Includes bibliographic references
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-00242-2
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