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- The Soul in Soulless Psychology
- The Soul in Soulless Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Reintroducing the Soul
- 2 Psychology without a Soul
- 3 Dissenters I
- 4 Dissenters II
- 5 Substitution
- 6 Innovation
- 7 Restoration
- 8 Historical Psychologies of the Soul
- 9 Soul as a Psychological Category
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Psychology without a Soul
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2023
- The Soul in Soulless Psychology
- The Soul in Soulless Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Reintroducing the Soul
- 2 Psychology without a Soul
- 3 Dissenters I
- 4 Dissenters II
- 5 Substitution
- 6 Innovation
- 7 Restoration
- 8 Historical Psychologies of the Soul
- 9 Soul as a Psychological Category
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter addresses the rise of psychology without a soul. There were scientific conceptions of psychology with a soul in the eighteenth century. Psychologies without soul followed from David Hume’s treatment of mental life. Lange coined the phrase, “psychology without a soul,” promoting a scientific psychology free of metaphysics. Soulless psychology emerged with psychology as a natural science in Newtonian terms. It also reflected debates over the distinction between the mental and the physical and the status of the “knower” in consciousness. The chapter includes debates over “psychology without a soul," and the development of an objective psychology in behaviorism. The new psychology without a soul triumphed by 1910, when Angell declared that the funeral for the soul had been held.
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- The Soul in Soulless Psychology , pp. 22 - 58Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023