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