Psychologism: The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Martin Kusch

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 345
• Series: Philosophical Issues in Science
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

When did psychology become a distinct discipline? What links the Continental and Analytic traditions in philosophy? Both these questions are answered by this extraordinary account of psychologism in Germany at the turn of the century. Martin Kusch explores the origins of psychologism through the work of two major figures in the history of Twentieth Century philosophy: Gottlob Frege and Edmund Husserl. Using psychological and historical reconstruction, Martin Kusch shows how the power struggle between experimental psychologists and pure philosophers influenced the thought of both Frege and Husserl; it not only shaped their agendas but also determined the success of their arguments for disengaging logic from psychology. This debate was crucial in the creation of the separate discipline of psychology. Kusch has provided an invaluable study for the understanding of a key moment in the intellectual history of the Twentieth Century.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Note on appendices......Page 19
1 PSYCHOLOGISM AN INTRODUCTION......Page 20
2 TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE......Page 35
3 PSYCHOLOGISM REFUTED......Page 47
4 THE CRITICISM OF HUSSERL’S ARGUMENTS AGAINST PSYCHOLOGISM IN GERMAN PHILOSOPHY, 1901-20......Page 81
5 VARIETIES OF PSYCHOLOGISM 1866 1930......Page 112
6 ROLE HYBRIDISATION THE RISE OF THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY......Page 139
7 ROLE PURIFICATION THE REACTION OF PURE PHILOSOPHY AGAINST THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY......Page 176
8 WINNER TAKES ALL LEBENSPHILOSOPHIE AND THE TRIUMPH OF PHENOMENOLOGY......Page 225
Summary and conclusions......Page 284
Notes......Page 291
Bibliography......Page 302
Index......Page 334

✦ Subjects

Социологические дисциплины;Первоисточники по социологии;