|aThrough the rearview mirror :|bhistorical reflections on psychology /|cJohn Macnamara.
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|aCambridge, Mass. :|bMIT Press,|c1999.
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|axix, 291 p. :|bill. ;|c24 cm.
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|a"A Bardford book."
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-280) and index.
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|aIntroduction: three very general observations on psychology and its history -- Plato on learning -- Plato on truth and knowledge -- Aristotle on knowledge and understanding -- Aristotle on perception: three questions -- The Book of Genesis and psychology -- The impact of Christianity on psychology -- St. Augustine of Hippo: Christian Platonist -- St. Thomas Aquinas on individuals and concepts -- St. Thomas Aquinas and dualism -- Duns Scotus and William of Ockham: the cusp of the Middle Ages -- Thomas Hobbes: grandfather of modern psychology -- Rene Descartes: medieval man of the Renaissance -- John Locke: a no-nonsense developmental psychologist -- Gottfried Leibneiz and necessary truths -- Bishop Berkeley and the consequences of nominalism -- David Hume: Some consequences of British empiricism -- Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence -- Immanuel Kant and the foundational stance in psychology -- John Stuart Milles: a contemporary psychologist -- Charles Darwin: the Newton of biology -- Wilhelm Wundt: The founder of experimental psychology -- Franz Brentano: Intuition and the mental -- Sigmund Freud and the concept of mental health -- John B. Watson and the Behaviorists -- Some notes on the Gestalt Movement -- Extroduction.