Psychology by John C Malone
A history of ideas about mind, knowledge, the self, ethics, and free will, and their importance as more than just precursors of current thinking.Certain ideas have preoccupied thinkers since ancient times: the nature of mind, the sources of knowledge and belief, the nature of the self and ethics, the best way to lead our lives, the question of free will. In this book, John Malone examines these ideas in the writings of thinkers from antiquity to the present day and argues for their importance not just as precursors of modern views but as ideas that are frequently better than current ones. We can get good advice, he writes, from the writings of the best thinkers of the past. Pythagoras, Thales, Plato, Protagoras, Aristotle, Diogenes, and Epictetus all offer tried and tested ideas on how we should lead our lives and on the treatment of psychopathology--as do Berkeley, Hume, John Stuart Mill, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Sigmund Freud, and B. F. Skinner. Malone begins with the naturalistic and mystical strains of early Greek thought, moves on to Platonism and the world of Forms (and considers parallels between the thought of Plato and Freud), and discusses Ancient Self-Help Therapies (including Epicureanism). He investigates the psychological insights of Enlightenment thinkers including Francis Bacon and Galileo, Locke's and Kant's theories of experience, and Darwin's evolutionary thinking. He charts the rise of modern psychology and the beginning of biological psychology. He examines the work of Wundt, Titchener, Freud, Peirce, and James, among others, and describes the ideas of behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, and cognitive science. Malone's history offers both breadth and depth, an engaging style and rigorous scholarship, demonstrating vividly the relevance of the great historical psychological thinkers.-
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The Invincible
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Learning From Las Vegas
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The Embodied Mind
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Understanding Media
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One Place after Another
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The Outer Limits of Reason
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Theory of Colours
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His Master's Voice
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The Architectural Uncanny
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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
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Health Design Thinking
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Speculative Everything
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Frankenstein
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Hamlet on the Holodeck
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Collage City
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The Four Books on Architecture
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The Elusive Quest for Growth
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The Elements of Computing Systems
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The Sciences of the Artificial
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Artificial Unintelligence
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Consciousness
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A Primer of Visual Literacy
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How Change Happens
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Memoirs of a Space Traveler
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Zen and the Brain
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Strategies and Games
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Spotify Teardown
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How Attention Works
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Growth
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Remediation
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The Theory of Industrial Organization
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The New Librarianship Field Guide
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Good City Form
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Return from the Stars
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Models of My Life
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A Composer's Guide to Game Music
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Eccentric Spaces
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Algorithms Unlocked
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Warped Space
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Noise, Water, Meat
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The Classical Language of Architecture
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The Little Schemer
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Ways of Hearing
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| ISBN 13 | 9780262516570 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262516578 |
| Title | Psychology |
| Author | John C Malone |
| Series | The Mit Press |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-08-19 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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