Constructing Scientific Psychology

This biography is the first study to appear of the famous neurobiologist and psychologist Karl S. Lashley. Nadine Weidman thoroughly analyzes the position of Lashley's neuropsychological scholarship within the context of the major debates that have occurred within psychology and neurology over the last sixty years: between the protagonists of behaviorism and psychoneurology, between environmentalists and hereditarians, and, within neurology, about reductionism, or whether science could account for the role of consciousness and free will in human behavior. Despite his earlier association with John B. Watson, Lashley has always been opposed to behaviorism. He emphasized the irreducible spontaneity of behavior and, as a neurologist, investigated the relationship between brain and behavior

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