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Behavior and mind : the roots of modern psychology / Howard Rachlin.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.Description: viii, 163 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0195079795 (alk. paper)
- 9780195079791 (alk. paper)
- ARCH YNDC 128.2 R119B
- BD418.3 .R33 1994
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Summary: This book attempts to synthesize two apparently contradictory views of psychology: as the science of internal mental mechanisms and as the science of complex external behavior. Most books in the psychology and philosophy of mind reject one approach while championing the other, but Rachlin argues that the two approaches are complementary rather than contradictory. Rejection of either involves disregarding vast sources of information vital to solving pressing human problems--in the areas of addiction, mental illness, education, crime, and decision-making, to name but a few. Where previous books have focused either on psychology as an abstract science of the mind or as a strictly empirical approach to behavioral problems, this is the only book that attempts to show how the best modern theoretical work on mental mechanisms relates to the best modern empirical work on complex behavioral problems.
1. Behavior, Cognition, and Mind --- 2. Teleological Behaviorism and Cognitive Psychology --- 3. Plato --- 4. Aristotle's Scientific Method --- 5. Aristotle's Psychology and Ethics --- 6. Augustine and Descartes: The Concept of Free Will --- 7. A Teleological Science of Psychology.
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| ARCH YNDC 128.2 P945M Mental conflict / | ARCH YNDC 128.2 P949T Theories of the mind / | ARCH YNDC 128.2 P989R Representation and reality / | ARCH YNDC 128.2 R119B Behavior and mind : the roots of modern psychology / | ARCH YNDC 128.2 R456C Contemporary philosophy of mind : a contentiously classical approach / | ARCH YNDC 128.2 R684N Neither brain nor ghost : a nondualist alternative to the mind-brain identity theory / | ARCH YNDC 128.2 R684N Neither brain nor ghost : a nondualist alternative to the mind-brain identity theory / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-157) and index.
1. Behavior, Cognition, and Mind --- 2. Teleological Behaviorism and Cognitive Psychology --- 3. Plato --- 4. Aristotle's Scientific Method --- 5. Aristotle's Psychology and Ethics --- 6. Augustine and Descartes: The Concept of Free Will --- 7. A Teleological Science of Psychology.
This book attempts to synthesize two apparently contradictory views of psychology: as the science of internal mental mechanisms and as the science of complex external behavior. Most books in the psychology and philosophy of mind reject one approach while championing the other, but Rachlin argues that the two approaches are complementary rather than contradictory. Rejection of either involves disregarding vast sources of information vital to solving pressing human problems--in the areas of addiction, mental illness, education, crime, and decision-making, to name but a few. Where previous books have focused either on psychology as an abstract science of the mind or as a strictly empirical approach to behavioral problems, this is the only book that attempts to show how the best modern theoretical work on mental mechanisms relates to the best modern empirical work on complex behavioral problems.
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