Posted by Larry Hoover on June 3, 2005, at 17:27:00
In reply to Re: Oh... Okay... » Larry Hoover, posted by alexandra_k on June 1, 2005, at 23:31:13
> As Burt (1962) writes, "psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now...to have lost all consciousness" (p.229).
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> http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/pizzurro.html
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> Now I think it goes...
> Psychology - study of the psyche / soul...
> But then it became the 'science' of the mind / consciousness (hence bargained away its soul) round the time of structuralism...
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> Then it 'went out of its mind' when it became the science ('just like physics' heh heh) of behaviour - behaviourism...
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> Then it lost consciousness with modern cognitive psychology because it talks of mental processes in terms of 'information processing' and doesn't mention consciousness much at all...
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> But that was a hard one so I'll give it to you.Uh, I said a different man entirely. The quotation I was referring to was Professor R. H. Shevenell summing up Descartes' influence by saying:
"With Descartes, psychology lost its soul and found its mind: with British Empiricists, soul lost its mind and found its consciousness: with Watson and the Behaviorists, soul lost its consciousness and found is reflexes."
> Your up :-)
Uh, I think you need to do another question. Yours didn't really get answered, IMHO.
Lar
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