The transformation of psychology : influences of 19th century philosophy, technology, and natural science / edited by Christopher D. Green, Marlene Shore, and Thomas Teo.

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[2001], ©2001
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Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2001], ©2001.

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xvii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Contents

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 -- 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • 1557987769