Readings in the History and Systems of

Designed for use on its own or in conjunction withanymain book on the history/systems of psychology (including Brennan'sHistory and Systems of Psychology).This anthology provides a representative sampling of primary sources from Plato to Descartes to Freud to Watson that provides acoherentexposure to the evolution of ideas within psychology.It is written for those studentswithoutan advanced academic background in history, philosophy, or biology.

Preface

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PART I Introduction to the Study of the History of Psychology

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1 Thomas Kuhn, Excerpt from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1970)

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PART II Classical Perspectives on Psychology

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2 Plato, Excerpt from Book VII. "Story of the Cave" from The Republic (ca. 380 B.C.)

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3 Aristotle, Excerpts from Book II, Ch. 2, "Second Definition of the Soul," Ch. 3, "The Faculties of the Soul," Ch. 5 "Sense-Perception" from De Anima (ca. 330 B.C.)

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4 Augustine, Excerpt from The Confessions (ca. A.D. 310)

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5 Thomas Aquinas, Excerpts from Summa Theologiae (ca. 1272)

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PART III The Emergence of Psychology

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6 Rene Descartes, Excerpt from Part I, "About the Passions in General, and Incidently About the Entire Nature of Man" from The Passions of the Soul (1649)

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7 Baruch Spinoza, Excerpt from "The Emendation of the Intellect" (1677)

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8 Buenne Bonnot de Condillac, Excerpt from Treatise on the Sensations (1754)

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9 John Locke, Excerpts from Book II, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

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10 John Stuart Mill, Excerpt from Book VI of A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and Methods of Scientific Investigation (1843)

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11 Immanuel Kant, Excerpt from Critique of Pure Reason (1781)

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PART IV The Founding of Modern Psychology

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12 Wilhelm Wundt, Excerpt from Grundriss der Psychologie (Outlines of Psychology) (1897, 1902)

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13 Franz Brentano, Excerpt from Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874)

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PART V American Functional Psychology

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14 William James, Excerpt from The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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15 John Dewey, "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology" (1896)

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16 James Angell, Excerpt from "The Province of Functional Psychology" (1907)

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PART VI German Dynamic Psychology

165

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17 Kurt Koffka, Excerpt from "Perception: An Introduction to Gestalttheorie" (1922)

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18 Sigmund Freud, Excerpt from New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933)

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PART VII Behaviorism

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19 Ivan Pavlov, Excerpt from Lecture I of Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex (1927)

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20 John Broadus Watson, "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" (1913)

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21 Edward C. Tolman, "Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men" (1948)

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22 B. F. Skinner, "Can Psychology Be a Science of Mind?"

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PART VIII The Third Force Movement

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23 Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Excerpts from The Structure of Behavior (1942)

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24 Carl Rogers, "Person or Science? A Philosophical Question" (1955)

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Index

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