Foundations of Psychobiology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Robinson, Daniel N.

Psychology & Counseling

Pearson College Div

An Intellectual History of Psychology

     An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic in its field, is now available in a concise new third edition. It presents psychological ideas as part of a greater web of thinking throughout history about the essentials of human nature, interwoven with ideas from philosophy, science, religion, art, literature, and politics.     Daniel N. Robinson demonstrates that from the dawn of rigorous and self-critical inquiry in ancient Greece, reflections about human nature have been inextricably linked to the cultures from which they arose, and each definable historical age has added its own character and tone to this long tradition. An Intellectual History of Psychology not only explores the most significant ideas about human nature from ancient to modern times, but also examines the broader social and scientific contexts in which these concepts were articulated and defended. Robinson treats each epoch, whether ancient Greece or Renaissance Florence or Enlightenment France, in its own terms, revealing the problems that dominated the age and engaged the energies of leading thinkers.     Robinson also explores the abiding tension between humanistic and scientific perspectives, assessing the most convincing positions on each side of the debate. Invaluable as a text for students and as a stimulating and insightful overview for scholars and practicing psychologists, this volume can be read either as a history of psychology in both its philosophical and aspiring scientific periods or as a concise history of Western philosophy’s concepts of human nature.

An intellectual history of psychology

Macmillan

<p>Traces the development of the human consciousness and argues that many scientific theories of human nature denigrate the value of humanity</p>

Wonder of Being Human: Our Brain and Our Mind

Eccles, John

Free Pr

The Wonder of Being Human: Our Brain and Our Mind

The Free Press

Psychology and Law: Can Justice Survive the Social Sciences?

Psychology and law: Can justice survive the social sciences?

Oxford University Press

Systems of Modern Psychology: A Critical Sketch

Systems of modern psychology: A critical sketch

Columbia University Press

The Enlightened Machine: An Analytical Introduction to Neuropsychology

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Robinson unfolds the vision of four influential writers on psychology---J.S. Mill, F. Hegel, Wilhelm Wundt, and William James---who considered the world, its persons and problems, its possibilities and conflicts, its scientific facts and its moral ambiguities, and proceeded to devise a means by which to improve it. Robinson shows how in thinking about psychology, these individuals provided an intellectual context within which the discipline could be refined.

Toward a Science of Human Nature

History

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