Philosophical Principles of the History and Systems of Psychology, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Essential Distinctions

Taking philosophical principles as a point of departure, this book provides essential distinctions for thinking through the history and systems of Western psychology. The book is concisely designed to help readers navigate through the length and complexity found in history of psychology textbooks. From Plato to beyond Post-Modernism, the author examines the choices and commitments made by theorists and practitioners of psychology and discusses the philosophical thinking from which they stem. What kind of science is psychology? Is structure, function, or methodology foremost in determining psychology's subject matter? Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is not the same as the psychoanalyst's view of it, or the existentialist's, so how may contemporary psychology philosophically-sustain both pluralism and incommensurability? This book will be of great value to students and scholars of the history of psychology. 

Articulates the principles operable for thinking through the history and systems of psychology

Focuses on the principles operable in differentiating the history and systems of psychology

Offers readers key philosophical distinctions with which readers may orient to contemporary psychology’s plethora of methods, schools and approaches