Philosophy and History of Psychology : Selected works of Elizabeth Valentine (Paperback)

Paer I: Philosophy 1. Philosophy and psychology 2. Psychology as science 3. Folk psychology and its implications for cognitive science: discussion 4. Introspection 5. The possibility of a science of experience: an examination of some conceptual problems facing the study of consciousness 6. Dissociation and the delimitation of consciousness: implications of neuropsychological phenomena for philosophical conceptions of consciousness 7. Perception and action in East and West 8. Metaphysics 9. Mind-body problems: distinguishing the soluble from the insoluble 10. Explanation 11. Reduction Part II: From philosophy to history 12. Neural nets: from Hartley and Hebb to Hinton 13. G. F. Stout’s philosophical psychology 14. Biographical introduction to James Sully’s Studies of Childhood Part III: History 15. Psychology at Bedford College London 1849?1985 16. Measuring the mind: Beatrice Edgell, pioneer woman psychologist of Bedford College 17. The founding of the Psychological Laboratory, University College London: “Dear Galton . . . Yours truly, J Sully” 18. Spooks and spoofs: relations between psychical research and academic psychology in Britain in the inter-war period 19. To care or to understand? Women members of the British Psychological Society 1901?1918 20. The other woman 21. “A brilliant and many-sided personality”: Jessie Margaret Murray, founder of the Medico-Psychological Clinic