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PP 7000

History & Systems of Psychology

Spring 2008

Wednesdays 9-11:45

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INSTRUCTOR:

Kiel, Mark & Woolford-Hunt, Carole

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RECOMMENDED READINGS

Title / A History of Psychology: Main currents in psychological thought
Author(s) / Leahey, T.H.
Copyright / 2004
Publisher / Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
ISBN / 0-13-111447-6
Edition / 6th
Title / The Philosophical Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader
Author(s) / Presbey, Gail M., Struhl, Karsten J., and Olsen, Richard E. (eds.)
Copyright / 2002
Publisher / McGraw Hill
ISBN / 0-07-289867-4
Edition / Second
Title / The Philosopher’s Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods
Author(s) / Baggini, Julian & Fosl, Peter
Copyright / 2002
Publisher / Blackwell Publishers
ISBN / 0631228748
Edition / 1st

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

Title / The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers.
Author(s) / Honderich, Ted (editor)
Copyright / 2001
Publisher / Oxford University Press
ISBN / 978-0192854186
Edition
Title / Even the Rat was White: A Historical View of Psychology.
Author(s) / Guthrie, Robert
Copyright / 2001
Publisher / Prentice Hall
ISBN / 006-042561X
Edition / 2nd

Additional Recommended Readings

These texts may be potential sources for your papers or may be resources if you find that you would like to do additional reading in a particular area addressed in the class. I am glad to suggest additional resources as well.

Brennan, J.F. (1998). History and systems of psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Chalmers, D. (1996). The conscious mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

Davies, P. (1995). About time: Einstein’s unfinished revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Dennett, D. (1991). Consciousness explained. Boston: Little Brown.

Dobbs, B.J.T. & Jacob, M.C. (1995). Newton and the culture of Newtonianism. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.

Ellenberger, H.F. (1970). The discovery of the unconscious. NY: Basic Books.

Epstein, S. (1994). Integration of the cognitive and psychodynamic unconscious. American Psychologist, 49 (8), 709-724.

Flanagan, O. (1992). Consciousness reconsidered. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Flew, A. (1979). A dictionary of philosophy (2nd ed.). New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1997). Philosophy in the flesh: The embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. NY: Basic Books.

Mandik, P. (2001). Mental representation and the subjectivity of consciousness. Philosophical Psychology, 14 (2).

McGinn, C. (1997). The character of mind (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Miller, R. B. (Ed.) (1992). The restoration of dialogue: Readings in the philosophy of clinical psychology. Washington, D.C.: APA.

Palmer, J.S. (2002). The living clock. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rohmann, C. (1999). A world of ideas: A dictionary of important theories, concepts, beliefs and thinkers. New York: Ballantine Books.

Rychlak, J. (1979). Discovering free will and personal responsibility. New York: Oxford Press.

Rychlak, J.F. (1981). Introduction to personality and psychotherapy, 2nd edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Rychlak, J. (1988). The psychology of rigorous humanism (2nd ed.) New York: NYU Press.

Searle, J. (1992). The rediscovery of the mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Shear, J. (Ed.) (1997). Explaining consciousness – the “hard problem”. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Slife, B.D. (1993). Time and psychological explanation. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Zohar, D. (1990). The quantum self. NY: Morrow.

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