Constructing Scientific Psychology - Karl Lashley''s Mind-Brain Debates

Klappentext This is the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley. Zusammenfassung This 1999 book was the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley. The book explodes the myth of Lashley's neuropsychology as a fact-driven! 'pure' science by arguing that a belief in the power of heredity and a nativist and deeply conservative racial ideology informed every aspect of his theory and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Lashley and Jennings: the origins of a hereditarian; 2. Lashley, Watson, and the meaning of behaviorism; 3. The pursuit of a neutral science; 4. Neuropsychology and hereditarianism; 5. Psychobiology and progressivism; 6. Psychobiology and its discontents: the Lashley-Herrick debate; 7. Hull and psychology as a social science; 8. Intelligence testing and thinking machines: the Lahley-Hull debate; 9. Pure psychology; 10. Public science and private life; 11. Genetics, race biology, and depoliticization; Epilogue: Lashley and American neuropsychology; Appendix: archives holding Lashley material; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Nadine Weidman, Nadine M. Weidman, Nadine M. (Harvard University Weidman
• Assisted by: Mitchell G. Ash (Editor), William R. Woodward (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.1999
• EAN: 9780521621625
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62162-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works