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Behavior and mind : the roots of modern psychology

Title: Behavior and mind : the roots of modern psychology / Howard Rachlin.
Author: Rachlin, Howard, 1935-2021.
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Description

viii, 163 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book attempts to synthesize two apparently contradictory views of psychology: as the science of internal mental mechanisms and as the science of complex external behavior. Most books in the psychology and philosophy of mind reject one approach while championing the other, but Rachlin argues that the two approaches are complementary rather than contradictory. Rejection of either involves disregarding vast sources of information vital to solving pressing human problems--in the areas of addiction, mental illness, education, crime, and decision-making, to name but a few. Where previous books have focused either on psychology as an abstract science of the mind or as a strictly empirical approach to behavioral problems, this is the only book that attempts to show how the best modern theoretical work on mental mechanisms relates to the best modern empirical work on complex behavioral problems.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-157) and index.

Contents

1. Behavior, Cognition, and Mind --- 2. Teleological Behaviorism and Cognitive Psychology --- 3. Plato --- 4. Aristotle's Scientific Method --- 5. Aristotle's Psychology and Ethics --- 6. Augustine and Descartes: The Concept of Free Will --- 7. A Teleological Science of Psychology.

ISBN

0195079795
9780195079791

LCCN

92047398

OCLC

ocm27338403
27338403
SCSB-1999976

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Princeton University Library