Lecture Outline
PSY 6608
Spring, 2005
Dr. Dewsbury

Note: In some cases, this is an outline of the material I would like to cover. We will not cover it all. My hope is that this will be a guide to help you see the structure of the lectures and to prepare for exams.  It does not include material from the textbook and we will cover some important material in class that does not appear on the outline.

Introductory Material
What is history?
Why study history?
    Perspective
    Understanding fragmentation
    Make assumptions explicit
    Focus on significant questions
    Avoid repeating mistakes
    Knowledge for its own sake
Why we should not study history

Persistent Problems in Psychology
Philosophical problems
    Ontology
        Monism
            Materialism
            Idealism
        Dualism
            Interactive
            Epiphenomenalism
            Parallelism
            Pre-established harmony
        Occasionalism
        Double-aspectism
    Epistemology
        Skepticism
        Mysticism
        Empiricism
        Rationalism
    Ethics
    Aesthetics
    Politics
Kimble's "Two cultures"
    Scientific vs. humanistic values
    Behavior as determined vs. indeterminate
    Knowledge from observation vs. intuition
    Laboratory vs. field/case-study orientation
    Nomothetic vs. idiographic laws
    Elementism vs. holism
Watson's "Psychology as a Prescriptive Science"
    Conscious mentalism vs. unconscious mentalism
    Contentual objectivism vs. contentual subjectivism
    Determinism vs. indeterminism
    Empiricism vs. rationalism
    Functionalism vs. structuralism
    Inductivism vs. deductivism
    Mechanism vs. vitalism
    Methodological objectivism vs. subjectivism
    Molecularism vss. molarism
    Monism vs. dualism
    Naturalism vs. supernaturalism
    Nomoethicism vs. idiographicism
    Peripheralism vs. centralism
    Purism vs. utilitarianism
    Quantitativism vs. qualitativism
    Rationalism-irrationalism
    Staticism vss. developmentalism
    Staticism-dynamism

Historiography and Philosophy of Science
  Traditional History vs. The New History
    Ceremonial vs. critical
    Secondary sources vs. archival
    Great men vs. Zeitgeist
    Internal vs. external
    Presentism/Whiggism vs. Historicism
    Winners vs. Winners and losers
    Progress vs. change
    Repetitive vs. expansive
The "Science Studies Controversy"
    Realism vs. Science studies
    The growth model
    Social constructivism
    Postmodernism
Postmodern Constructionism
    External truth exists vs. formulated by people
    Phenomena discovered vs. formulated
    Truths as absolute vs. situated
    Science: progress vs. change
    Science  unique vs. just one form of discourse
    Human agency vs. cultural determinism
    Language as representation vs. structuring reality
    Truth absolute vs. negotiated
After the Greeks

Renaissance & Enlightenment
Renaissance
    Definitions
    Philosophy
    Science
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo
    Shift from final causes
    Deductive reasoning
    Heliocentric universe
    Galileo, Courtier
Francis Bacon
    Inductive reasoning
    Idols
    Applied science
    Tie to Skinner
Newton
    Modern view of nature
    Recent analyses
Descartes
    Meditation as method
    Innate ideas
    Cogito argument
    Interactive dualism
    Reflexes
    Memory and passions
    Humans and nonhumans

British Empiricists
Thomas Hobbes
    Pleasure-pain principle
    Deductive method
    Mechanist/determinist
    Tie to behaviorism and sociobiology
John Locke
    Tabula rasa
    Reflection
    Primary and secondary qualities
    Simple and complex ideas
    Democracy
    Education
George Berkeley
    Subjective idealism
    Esse is percepti
    Depth perception
David Hume
    Impressions and ideas
    Associationism
    Causation
David Hartley
    Vibratiucles
    Associationism
Jeremy Bentham
    Utilitarianism
James Mill
    Compound ideas
John Stuart Mill
    Mental chemistry
    "Ethology"
    The Subjugation of Women
Alexander Bain
    Physiological approach
    Spencer-Bain principle
    Mind

Rationalism
Thomas Reid
    Scottish realism
    Common sense
    Faculty psychology
Baruch Spinoza
    Epistemology
    Double-aspect monism
    Determinism
    Pantheism
G. W. Leibniz
    Monads
    Pre-established harmony
    Innate intellect
    Perception
        Petite perceptions
        Apperception
        Limen
        Unconscious
Immanuel Kant
    A priori synthetic truths
    Causation
    Noumena and phenomena
    Synthetic construction
    Categories
    Categorical imperative
    On psychology
    Lorenz on Kant
Johann Friedrich Herbart
    Mental mechanics
    Apperceptive mass
    Educational psychology
G. W. F. Hegel
    Idealism
    Dialectical process
 

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