Sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley)
And the History of Health Sciences Program (UCSF)
Gary Hatfield
University of Pennsylvania
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Psychology in Mind: From the Mind-Body to the Physiology-Psychology Problem
The early decades of the journal Mind provide a laboratory for studying the emerging discipline of psychology. The journal's content ranges across the fields of both philosophy and psychology, and takes note of related sciences (most frequently, physiology and medicine). This sample of materials provides a partial portrait of the emergence of psychology as a subject matter considered to be distinct from philosophy. It also reflects the effects of the new psychology on philosophical problems, and the various modes of philosophical engagement with and attitudes toward the new psychology. I examine changes in the philosophical conception of the mind-body problem, noting that philosopher-psychologists initially recast it as a psychology-physiology problem. I then trace a divergence of attitudes between British philosophers and American philosophers on these issues, and speculate about causes.
4:00PM
Monday, October 15, 2007
279 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley
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University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2350
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