A tool for thought! When comparative thinking reduces stereotyping effects

Thinking about thinking: language, thought and introspection

I do not think that the world or the sciences would ever have suggested to me any philosophical problems. What has suggested philosophical problems to me is things which other philosophers have said about the world or the sciences. (G.E. Moore, 1942, p. 14) Peter Carruthers has made a vigorous attempt to defend the admittedly unfashionable doctrine that we think ‘in’ language, despite its displ...

Thinking and the New Psychology: Imageless Thought

Although the birthdate of an experimental psychology can be argued, Wilhelm Wundts assumption of paternity cannot. It was Wundt in 1874 who marked out the "new domain of science" and who made the break with -self-observation by insisting that "all accurate observation implies . . . that the observed object is independent of the observer." The psychical processes had to be properly controlled in...

Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought

In the Mood for Thought: Feeling and Thinking in Philosophy

When Thinking Replaces Fear

visited a mental hospital to make a television documentary. Here he describes how his attitude to mental illness underwent a radical change as a result of working with the patients There are to most people certain aspects of life which they never really think about. When these subjects are mentioned in their presence the brain operates like a tumbler lock. Click, click, click?the trigger-words ...