تحول روانشناسی: تأثیرات فلسفه، فناوری و علوم طبیعی قرن نوزدهم

At The End Of The 18th Century, Leading Minds Of The Age Believed That Psychology Was Inherently Constrained From Rising To The Level Of Natural Science. By The Beginning Of The 20th Century, Scientific Psychology Was Pervasive. How Did This Change Occur So Quickly? The Transformation Of Psychology: Influences Of 19th-century Philosophy, Technology, And Natural Science Reveals Some Of The Intellectual, Social, Technological, And Institutional Currents And Practices That Were Commonplace During The 19th Century And Fostered A Radical Reappraisal Of The Scientific Possibilities For Psychology. Whereas The Standard Historical Narrative Focuses On Fechner's Psychophysics, Helmholtz's Physiology, And Wundt's Physiological Psychology, This Volume Explores A Collection Of Diverse Areas Of Study That Attempted To Render Psychology Scientific. Readers Will Encounter Many Fascinating Currents Of Thought--from Eugenics And Mathematical Beauty To Prognosticators And Phrenologists--in This Rich And Insightful Book. Eugenics And Other Victorian Secular Religions / Raymond E. Fancher -- Practical Phrenology As Psychological Counseling In The 19th-century United States / Michael M. Sokal -- Sealing Off The Discipline : Wilhelm Wundt And The Psychology Of Memory / Kurt Danziger -- Psychology And Memory In The Midst Of Change : The Social Concerns Of Late-19th-century North American Psychologists / Marlene Shore -- The Psychology Of Mathematical Beauty In The 19th Century : The Golden Section / John G. Benjafield -- Cause Into Function : Ernst Mach And The Reconstruction Of Explanation In Psychology / Andrew S. Winston -- Charles Babbage, The Analytical Engine, And The Possibility Of A 19th-century Cognitive Science / Christopher D. Green -- Instincts And Instruments / Katharine Anderson -- Philosophic Doubts About Psychology As A Natural Science / Charles W. Tolman -- Karl Marx And Wilhelm Dilthey On The Socio-historical Conceptualization Of The Mind / Thomas Teo -- Early Development And Psychology : Genetic And Embryological Influences, 1880-1920 / Fredric Weizmann. Edited By Christopher D. Green, Marlene Shore, And Thomas Teo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. CONTENTS CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION 1 Eugenics and Other Victorian “Secular Religions” 2 Practical Phrenology as Psychological Counseling in the 19th-Century United States 3 Sealing Off the Discipline 4 Psychology and Memory in the Midst of Change 5 The Psychology of Mathematical Beauty in the 19th Century 6 Cause Into Function 7 Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine, and the Possibility of a 19th-Century Cognitive Science 8 Instincts and Instruments 9 Philosophic Doubts About Psychology as a Natural Science 10 Karl Marx and Wilhelm Dilthey on the Socio-Historical Conceptualization of the Mind 11 Early Development and Psychology: Genetic and Embryological Influences, 1880- 1920 Index ABOUT THE EDITORS At the end of the 18th-Century, leading scholars believed that psychology was inherently constrained from rising to the level of a natural science. By the beginning of the 20th-Century, scientific psychology was pervasive. How did this change occur so quickly? The Transformation of Psychology reveals some of the intellectual, social, technological, and institutional currents and practices that were commonplace during the 19th-Century and that fostered a radical reappraisal of the scientific possibilities for psychology. This book reveals some of the intellectual, social, technological, and institutional currents and practices that were commonplace during the 19th century and fostered a reappraisal of the scientific possibilities for psychology. This volume explores a collection of diverse areas of study that attempted to render psychology scientific. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)