Tag: Psychologies

September 15, 2024

Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions

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Free Download Leslie Lockett, "Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions "
English | ISBN: 1442642173 | 2011 | 472 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning could cause the contents of the chest to grow warm, boil, or be constricted by pressure. While readers usually assume the metaphorical nature of such literary images, Leslie Lockett, in Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions, argues that these depictions are literal representations of Anglo-Saxon folk psychology.

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January 4, 2024

Psychologies of Mind The Collected Papers of John Maze

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Free Download Rachael Henry, "Psychologies of Mind: The Collected Papers of John Maze"
English | 2012 | pages: 385 | ISBN: 144118161X, 0826435513 | PDF | 1,0 mb
John Maze was a giant among philosophers of psychology.Thisexciting, newcollection of his published work demonstrates that what is seemingly new in psychology is so often not new at all but frequently consists of ill-informed corruptions of earlier, discarded, misguided attempts. Their collection together is timely in the current, innovatory era of cross-disciplinary exploration and integration on the borderlands of psychology and philosophy, where there is a visible danger that the welcome loosening of barriers to mutual communication also generates some ‘wild’ theorizing, familiar enough in the history of psychology itself. A corpus remarkable for its coherence, intellectual virtuosity and radicalism over 50 years, it speaks meaningfully to the wide range of psychological theory throughout its history up to the present day. Written with elegance and eloquence, the essays entail a thoroughgoing critical analysis of the most detrimental philosophical erroers of academic psychology in the 20th century, the relegation to history by the 20th century academy of some of the conceptually most promising lines of research, the cost that has been borne by the discipline of psychology, and the most promising future direction for the discipline.

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