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Reductionism
Lecture 19. October 28 and 29. Afterthoughts. In order to make a place for psychology at the table of science, psychology’s founder, Wilhelm Wundt, proclaimed an “alliance” between philosophical ps… more →
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Reductionism
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 19. October 28 and 29. Afterthoughts. In order to make a place for psychology at the tabl … more →
Operational Definition, Legacy of Positivism
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 18. October 23 and 27. Afterthoughts. Positivists such as Comte believed that the basis of … more →
The Authority of Science, the Boulder Model, and Clinical Psychology
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 17. October 21 and 22. Afterthoughts. Some questions and remarks after class suggested I sh … more →
Decision Making: Outcome or Process? Reason or Emotion?
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 16. October 14 and 20. Afterthoughts. In examining the moral question, we looked at two ki … more →
Universal and Particular: Implications for Social Science
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 15. October 9 and 15. Afterthoughts. Essential to the Enlightenment Project was (is) the u … more →
Variations on the Cartesian Paradigm: Consciousness and its Place in Science
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 13. October 2 and 8. Afterthoughts. In the last post, I discussed two aspects of the Carte … more →
The Cartesian Paradigm
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 12. October 2 and 8. Afterthoughts. I talked about a Cartesian Paradigm, or Framework, tha … more →
Science as an Institution
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 11. September 25 and October 1. Afterthoughts. The question that we considered in today’s … more →
The Relevance of Stoicism
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 9. September 18 and 24. Afterthoughts. In class, I put up a new slide about why the Greeks … more →
Expertise
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 7. September 11 and 17. Afterthoughts. In Plato’s Socratic dialogues a repeating the … more →
Know thyself
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 5. September 4 and 10. Afterthoughts. ”Know thyself” was an ancient Greek mott … more →
Psyche and Psychology
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 4. September 2 and 8. Afterthoughts. The deepest problems of biology and psychology began … more →
Human Nature in/and History
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 3. August 28 and September 3. Afterthoughts. Psychology is different from other sciences i … more →
Evolution of Psychological Systems: What is science?
psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: During its short formal history, psychology has proclaimed itself to be a science, though this cla … more →
