Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychology

Martin Farrell is an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester. With over fifteen years' experience of teaching psychology, he has lectured on many aspects of the discipline but his main focus has always been on the interface between psychology and philosophy. He has lectured on the history of psychology for more than ten years, on consciousness for thirteen years, and has taught philosophy of science to postgraduate students for six years. This book is the fruit of this accumulated experience.

• Part I. Philosophy of Science: 1. Logical positivism and Popper's falsificationism; 2. Kuhn and scientific revolutions; 3. Lakatos and Feyerabend: research programmes and anarchism; Part II. Historical Development of the Philosophy of Mind: 4. Descartes and the mind-body problem; 5. Locke, Berkeley, and empiricism; 6. Hume, Kant, and Enlightenment; 7. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; Part III. Psychology: 8. Psychophysics and physiological psychology; 9. Evolution and psychology; 10. Freud and psychoanalysis; 11. Wundt and the birth of experimental psychology; 12. Titchener, introspection, and positivism; 13. Gestalt psychology; 14. William James and the stream of consciousness; 15. Dewey and functionalism; 16. Behaviourism; 17. Cognitive psychology; 18. Modularity, neuroscience, and embodied cognition.

'A refreshing text … the author's narrative is clear, focused, and engaging, and the central ideas and concepts - even the difficult ones - are presented in an accessible and comprehensible fashion.' Edwin E. Gantt, Brigham Young University