Psychology and philosophy
Toward a realignment, 1905-1935
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4004993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurence D Smith (University of New Hampshire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-37 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/1520-6696(198101)17:1<28::aid-jhbs2300170105>3.0.co;2-r |
| PMID | 11608579 |
| OpenAlex | W2086547508 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In the first decade of this century, debates over whether psychology should be affiliated with philosophy or the natural sciences signaled the discipline's withdrawal from philosophy. By the 1930s, however, talk of a rapprochement between psychology and philosophy was common in the psychological literature. This paper traces the changes in philosophy which facilitated that rapprochement and examines psychology's role in the development of logical positivism. Bertrand Russell introduced Watsonian behaviorism to the Vienna Circle via his reformulation of epistemology in behavioristic terms. Under the further influence of Neurath and Popper, Carnap led the Vienna Circle to abandon Mach's phenomenalistic stance and adopt physicalist language as the basis of science. Physicalism entailed a version of behaviorism less restrictive than Watson's and was thus received favorably by many neo-behaviorists. Whereas Thorndike and Watson had been unsympathetic toward philosophy, each of the major neo-behaviorists (Skinner, Tolman, Hull, and Guthrie) had significant contact with the new positivist philosophy.
Behaviorism · Empiricism · Epistemology · Logical positivism · Metaphysics · Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of psychology · Physicalism · Positivism · Psychoanalysis · Watson · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 1988 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |