THE HISTORY AND SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOLOGY COURSE

* schools of thought in the first decades of psychology [web page]

SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM AND PSYCHOLOGY

* cortical localization of function: Franz Joseph Gall and phrenology (pp. 244-247), Phineas Gage (not in 6th edition, see optional link on web page), Paul Broca (pp. 248-250), Karl Lashley (pp. 606-608)

* contemporary approaches to the mind in psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience; Parallel Distributed Processing a.k.a. Neural Networks or Connectionism (CH.20: pp. 635-639 on New Connectionism) and its antecedents [PDP History web page]

PSYCHOLOGY AS A NATURAL SCIENCE: FOUR DEFINITIONS

* textbook definition (overview of psychology's history): CH.20 pp. 623-628 on the birth of cognitive psychology, p. 616 on Chomsky; see also "Early Psychology" readings for structuralism and behaviorism

* philosophical definition: CH.1 pp. 18-23 empiricism, nativism, and rationalism

* natural science definition

* practical definition (extensional definition)

* implications of definitions for the materialist scientific world view

EARLY PSYCHOLOGY

* Mueller pp. 235-236 ("Doctrine Of Specific Nerve Energies")

* Helmholtz pp. 237-242 ("Helmholtz's Stand Against Vitalism"; "Rate Of Nerve Conduction" through "Helmholtz's Contributions")

* Weber pp. 251-252 (esp. "Judgments are relative")

* Fechner pp. 254-256 ("Psychophysics")

* Donders pp. 269 ("Mental Chronometry" - in the middle of the Wundt section)

* Wundt and voluntarism: pp. 262-264; 266-267 ("Psychology's goals"; "Mediate and immediate experience"; "Wundt's use of introspection"); 268-270 ("Mental chronometry"); 271-272 ("Volitional Acts"; "Volkerpsychologie"; "The Historical Misunderstanding of Wundt")

* Titchener and structuralism: pp. 275-277 ("Psychology's goals"; "Titchener's use of introspection"; "Mental elements"; "Law of Combination"), 277-278 ("The decline of structuralism")

* Kulpe and the imageless thought debate: pp. 283-285

* Watson and the founding of behaviorism: p. 401 (quote), 404-405 ("Language and Thinking"), 407-408 ("Watson's experiment with Albert"), 411-412 ("the mind-body problem"; "Watson's influence")

* Functionalism: pp. 336-337 ("Stage Four: US Functionalism"; "Characteristics of Functionalistic Psychology"); 376 ("The Fate Of Functionalism")

THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM AND ITS RELATION TO PSYCHOLOGY

* dualism: substance dualism (interactionist / Cartesian, popular); property dualism (epiphenomenalism, interactionist property dualism, elemental property dualism)

* monism: idealism, materialism (philosophical behaviorism, reductive materialism / identity theory, functionalism)

* Mind-Body Problem web page; CH.1 pp. 17-19 mind-body problem (secondary to the Mind-Body Problem web page); CH.20 pp. 628-635 on Artificial Intelligence, Turing, Searle, Information-Processing Psychology; pp. 633-634 "The Return Of The Mind-Body Problem"

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

* CH.1 pp. 7-14 "What Is Science", Logical Positivism, Popper and Kuhn; pp. 14-17 determinism

FOUNDATIONS OF ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY IN EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY

* CH.2: pp. 29-38 on Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Democritus; pp. 38-41 on Early Greek Medicine; pp. 41-60 on the Sophists, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

* Freud and Plato: pp. 531-532 on id, ego, and superego; pp. 527-528 and 534-536 on the Oedipus Complex and its resolution in the "phallic stage" of psychosexual development

* Mapping Aristotle's Four Causes onto behaviorist theories of learning: Lashley and material cause, p. 607; Hull and efficient cause, pp. 435-437 (esp. section on "Reaction Potential"); Tolman and formal cause, pp. 430-431; Skinner and final cause, p. 445 (section on "Operant Behavior") and p. 448 (section on "Skinner's Attitude Toward Theory")

THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

* Augustine pp. 78-79 (top)

* Scholasticism p. 86

* Thomas Aquinas pp. 89-91

* Galileo pp. 108-112

* Newton pp. 112-114

FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN EPISTEMOLOGY

* Descartes pp. 117-124

* John Locke pp. 134-140

* George Berkeley pp. 140-143

* David Hume pp. 143-150

* Immanuel Kant pp. 192-196

* Platonic and Aristotelian themes in psychology [Epistemology web page]

POSITIVISM

* Auguste Comte's version pp. 168-169 and Ernst Mach's version pp. 171-172; William Of Occam, pp. 91-92; Francis Bacon, pp. 115-117; B.F. Skinner, p. 444

* Logical Positivism and Neobehaviorism pp. 423-426

* Logical Positivism web page

MENTAL TESTING

* CH.10 pp. 302-326

* Franz Joseph Gall and phrenology pp. 244-247

* Maskelyne, Kinnebrook, Bessel on reaction time and personal equations pp. 232-233

PSYCHOANALYSIS

* CH.16