心理学的知識：社会史と哲学 Psychological Knowledge : A Social History and Philosophy (Philosophical Issues in Science)

Kusch, Martin

Routledge（2006/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 428 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415379311
• DDC分類 150.1

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1999. 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.

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction PART I A social history of psychological knowledge: the controversy over thought psychology in Germany, 1900-20 Introduction to Part I 1 The Würzburgers 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 PART II The sociophilosophy of folk psychology Introduction to Part II 8 The folk psychology debate 9 Folk psychology as a social institution