An Intellectual History of Psychology

Abstract

Philosophical psychology: defining the subject psychology in the Hellenic age - from the pre-Socratics to the Dialogues the Hellenistic age - Aristotle, the Epicureans and the Stoics patristic psychology - the authority of faith scholastic psychology - the authority of Aristotle nature and spirit in the Renaissance. From philosophy to psychology: empiricism - the authority of experience rationalism - the geometry of the mind materialism - the enlightened machine. Scientific psychology: the 19th century - the authority of scienec from systems to specialities - the crucial half century (1870-1920) contemporary formulations.