1st Edition

Platonism and Positivism in Psychology

Edited By Mortimer Adler Copyright 1995
273 Pages
by Routledge

273 Pages
by Routledge

546 Pages
by Routledge

Psychology is a field of many paradoxes. Since its earliest beginnings as a natural science, psychologists have been in search of their proper subject matter. Today they are in less agreement than ever. In this classic text, originally published as What Man Has Made of Man, Mortimer J. Adler goes to the root of the problem. He shows that psychology is simultaneously a particular social science... Read more
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, INTRODUCTION, AUTHOR’S PREFACE, Lecture 1. THE CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE IN THE MODERN WORLD, Lecture 2. THE POSITION OF PSYCHOLOGY: IN PHILOSOPHY AND AMONG THE NATURAL SCIENCES, Lecture 3. THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY, Lecture 4. PSYCHOANALYSIS AS PSYCHOLOGY, SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES, EPILOGUE, LIST OF PRINCIPAL NOTES

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Julie Christian