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Motives and Mechanisms

An Introduction to the Psychology of Action

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Engelska, 2015

801 kr

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As the first introductory statement of the ‘new psychology’, Motives and Mechanisms, originally published in 1985, aims to bring the study of human action to the forefront of the subject. Like any science, the practice of psychology is very much influenced by the hidden assumptions of its practitioners. The argument put forward in this important text shows how these assumptions can be brought out by comparing psychology with the natural sciences and with common-sense understanding.

In pursuing the integration of traditional research methods with a new style of investigation, the basic principle is that social structures and mental structures are in reciprocal relation with one another because each is involved in the creation of the other. By adopting this principle social structures become the basis for research into the cognitive and emotional organization of mind. The authors devote two key chapters to the central question that underlies this stance: are human actions and human actors’ products of internal processes, such as those described by Freud, or of external social forces, of the kind described by Mead?

Motives and Mechanisms

An Introduction to the Psychology of Action

AvNicola De Carlo,David Clarkem. fl.

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2015

801 kr

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As the first introductory statement of the ‘new psychology’, Motives and Mechanisms, originally published in 1985, aims to bring the study of human action to the forefront of the subject. Like any science, the practice of psychology is very much influenced by the hidden assumptions of its practitioners. The argument put forward in this important text shows how these assumptions can be brought out by comparing psychology with the natural sciences and with common-sense understanding.

In pursuing the integration of traditional research methods with a new style of investigation, the basic principle is that social structures and mental structures are in reciprocal relation with one another because each is involved in the creation of the other. By adopting this principle social structures become the basis for research into the cognitive and emotional organization of mind. The authors devote two key chapters to the central question that underlies this stance: are human actions and human actors’ products of internal processes, such as those described by Freud, or of external social forces, of the kind described by Mead?

Wittgenstein and Psychology

A Practical Guide

AvMichael Tissaw,Rom HarrA(c)

E-bok

Engelska, 2017

572 kr

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Wittgenstein made use of his insights into the nature and powers of language to search out the source of conceptual confusions in the foundations of mathematics and in philosophy of psychology. Once he has established the use account of language, his Philosophical Investigations opens out into an extensive coverage of psychological phenomena and the concepts with which we identify and manage them. In this book Harr nd Tissaw display Wittgenstein''s analysis of the ''grammar'' of the most important of these concepts in a systematic and accessible way. Previous studies of the psychological aspects of Wittgenstein''s writings, admirable as exegeses of his thought, have paid little attention to the relevant psychology. Here, the ''adjacent'' theories and empirical investigations from mainstream psychology have been described in sufficient detail to show how Wittgenstein''s work impinges on psychology as it has actually been practiced. In using this book, philosophers will be able to get a sense of the relevance of Wittgenstein''s philosophical psychology to the development of psychology as a science. Psychologists will be able to see how to use Wittgenstein''s insights to enrich and discipline their attempts to gain an understanding of human thinking, feeling, acting and perceiving, the domain of psychology as science. The book includes an historical overview of the sources of Wittgenstein''s philosophy in the Vienna of the last years of Austro-Hungary, as well as a brief presentation of the main themes of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as it anticipated computational models of cognition. Student use is emphasized with frequent summaries and self-test questionnaires.

Wittgenstein and Psychology

A Practical Guide

AvMichael Tissaw,Rom HarrA(c)

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2017

572 kr

Läs direkt efter köp

Wittgenstein made use of his insights into the nature and powers of language to search out the source of conceptual confusions in the foundations of mathematics and in philosophy of psychology. Once he has established the use account of language, his Philosophical Investigations opens out into an extensive coverage of psychological phenomena and the concepts with which we identify and manage them. In this book Harr nd Tissaw display Wittgenstein''s analysis of the ''grammar'' of the most important of these concepts in a systematic and accessible way. Previous studies of the psychological aspects of Wittgenstein''s writings, admirable as exegeses of his thought, have paid little attention to the relevant psychology. Here, the ''adjacent'' theories and empirical investigations from mainstream psychology have been described in sufficient detail to show how Wittgenstein''s work impinges on psychology as it has actually been practiced. In using this book, philosophers will be able to get a sense of the relevance of Wittgenstein''s philosophical psychology to the development of psychology as a science. Psychologists will be able to see how to use Wittgenstein''s insights to enrich and discipline their attempts to gain an understanding of human thinking, feeling, acting and perceiving, the domain of psychology as science. The book includes an historical overview of the sources of Wittgenstein''s philosophy in the Vienna of the last years of Austro-Hungary, as well as a brief presentation of the main themes of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as it anticipated computational models of cognition. Student use is emphasized with frequent summaries and self-test questionnaires.

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